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DAUGHTERS AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



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PREFACE. 

Every effort has been made to ensure complete- 
ness and correctness in this record, and it is hoped 
that it contains no more errors than are perhaps 
unavoidable in any compilation of the kind, drawn 
from so many sources. It was thought best not to 
occupy space with references, these having been 
passed upon and recorded by the society, after an 
ample and careful scrutiny. The National and 
State Archives, many Town Histories, and various 
published biographies and family histories, which 
have been largely used, may be consulted with 
ease by anyone. In many cases these latter are 
so voluminous and comprehensive that only a brief 
abstract has been made of their contents ; nor has 
it been thought desirable to increase the bulk of 
the work with many extracts from printed books. 
More space has been given to anecdotes and charac- 
teristic particulars preserved by family tradition, in 
many cases hitherto unpublished, all of which are 
given on the authority of the member concerned. 

To avoid too frequent repetition of dates, an 
outline of the events of the Revolutionary War 



to which allusion is most often made is here ap- 
pended : 

Boston Tea- Party, December i6, 1773. 

Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. 

Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. 

Washington crosses the Delaware, Dec. 25, 1776. 

Surrender of Burgoyne, October 17, 1777. 

Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-8. 

Victory of ''Bon Homme Richard" over "Sera- 
pis," September 23, 1779. 

British capture of Charleston, May 12, 1780. 

Surrender of Cornwallis, October 19, 1781. 

Peace concluded, September 3, 1783. 

The lineage of all members deceased (t) and re- 
signed (R), unless since members of another chap- 
ter, has been included when it could be obtained. . 

The Committee in charge have found their task 
an agreeable one, and hope the results may give 
pleasure to all the members. 

Agnes Blake Poor, (Historian), ) ^ -^^ - 
^ ' ^ ^ / Committee m 

Elizabeth Washburn Grinnell, > 

Hdene Bartlett Davis, ) Charge. 



ANCESTRY. 



descend from 
John Warren. 



Mrs. William Appleton, (1,026) 
Mrs. J. Arthur Beebe, (1,006) 
Miss Rebecca Warren Brown, (246) 
Mrs. Charles H. Gibson, (1,755) 
Miss Annie Lyman, (4,545) 
Mrs. Thomas Motley, Jr., (1,811) 
Miss Annie C. Warren, (841) 



t Mrs. Buckminster Brown, (127), died 1895, descends 
from Joseph Warren. 

Joseph Warren, born June 11, 1741, at Roxbury, died 
June 17, 1775, on Bunker Hill, and John Warren, born 
July 27, 1753, at Roxbury, died April 4, 1815, at Boston, 
were the oldest and youngest of the four sons of Joseph 
and Mary (Stevens) Warren. Joseph married Elizabeth 
Hooton ; John married Abby Collins. 

They were born in a house in Roxbury, built by their 
grandfather, who removed there from Boston, and mar- 
ried Deborah, sister of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield. 
Their father was a farmer of ample fortune. He was 
killed in 1755, by a fall from an apple tree. He had an 
extensive knowledge of history, and was imbued with a 
strong love of his country. Upon one occasion, turning 
his eye upon his oldest son, Joseph, he exclaimed, "I 
would rather a son of mine were dead than a coward ! " 
This sentiment was never forgotten by his sons. Their 
mother was a grand-daughter of Robert Calef , a prominent 



6 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

merchant, who steadily opposed the withcraft delusion at 
one time so prevalent in New England. 

Joseph Warren graduated from Harvard College in 
1760. He was one of the most successful medical practi- 
tioners in Boston. He was a member of the St. Andrew's 
Lodge of Masons. Of commanding intellect and fascina- 
ting social qualities, he stood as one of the most prominent 
characters in the colony. He early distinguished himself 
by his patriotic devotion, and served with Otis, Hancock, 
and Samuel Adams on many important committees relative 
to the controversy between the British Government and 
the people. "America must and will be free," were his 
words before the Lexington guns had reverberated through 
the land. He pronounced the orations of 1772 and 1775, 
in memory of the Boston Massacre, with thrilling effect. 
He belonged to the body which, in 1774, drew up the 
celebrated "Suffolk Resolves," was delegate to, and 
afterwards President ( May 2, 1775 ) of, the Massachusetts 
Provincial Congress, and on June 14 was by that body 
commissioned Major-General. He was active in the battle 
of Lexington, and in a combat which terminated in the 
destruction of a British ship on Chelsea Beach. He 
showed splendid courage at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 
where he was shot through the head by a British officer, 
and General Howe, on hearing of his death, exclaimed, 
" His death is worth to me the loss of five hundred 
men ! " His funeral took place at King's Chapel, with 
military and masonic honors. He was buried in Granary 
Burying Ground, but afterwards removed to Forest Hills. 
On December 2, 1794, the King Solomon's Lodge of 
Masons, in Charlestown, erected a monument to him. 



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Although not sent to school till he was ten years old, 
John Warren entered Harvard College at the age of 
fourteen, and graduated in 1771. He then studied medi- 
cine with his brother Joseph, and after settling in Salem 
as a surgeon, he aided the public cause with tongue and 
pen. He joined Colonel Pickering's regiment as surgeon, 
and on the 19th of April accompanied it to Lexington. 
Two months later he was again called to the battle-field 
by the firing of cannon and by the flames of Charlestown. 
He wrote a pathetic and glowing description of his lonely 
march on that night. At early morn of the next day, 
June 18, 1775, he received the distressing tidings that his 
brother, General Warren, was missing. In his over- 
whelming anxiety to ascertain his brother's fate. Dr. 
Warren received a thrust from a bayonet, the scar of 
which he bore through life. It was not for some days 
that the body of that world-renowned patriot of the 
American Revolution was recovered. 

Dr. John Warren, in 1778, joined the expedition of 
General Greene to Rhode Island. He married the daugh- 
ter of Governor Collins of that State, who was a great 
favorite with General Washington, with whom she was 
often in camp. 

Dr. Warren was one of the detachment ordered to take 
possession of Boston on its evacuation by the British 
troops. It was on this occasion that he and another 
surgeon made the discovery of a fiendish trap which had 
been set for the destruction of American soldiers by the 
enemy. In a large quantity of medicines that had been 
left by the English in the building used by them as a 
hospital, white arsenic was found mixed with the drugs. 



8 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

By this timely discovery many lives were doubtless 
saved. 

Dr. Warren delivered the first of the series of Fourth of 
July orations in Boston, in 1783. He aided greatly the 
cause of American liberty by his various orations and 
addresses. His eloquence had a charm which fascinated 
his audience, who heard with regret the closing words of 
his speeches, which were often three hours in length. He 
was celebrated as a surgeon. Under his auspices the 
Medical School, in which he was appointed Professor of 
Anatomy, was attached to Harvard College. He again 
took up the sword and aided in quelling the rebellion of 
Captain Shays and his followers in 1786. 

The War of 1812 with England was greatly deprecated 
by this dear-minded patriot, and when peace was declared 
in 1814, he exclaimed, " Now let me depart in peace, for I 
have seen the salvation of my country ! " Disregard of 
health during the pressure of professional duties, and 
devotion to others, contributed to shorten his life. 

General Joseph Warren left four children, of whom his 
brother took charge, as their mother had died two years 
previously. His two sons were educated by the govern- 
ment at Harvard College, but they died young. Of his 
daughters, one married General Wells; the other, Mary 
Warren, married first, — Lyman, second, Richard English 
Newcomb, and had Joseph Warren Newcomb, who 
married Sarah Wells Alvord, and was father of Sarah 
Alvord Newcomb, who married Buckminster Brown, 
M. D. 

Dr. John Warren had a large family, and has left many 
descendants. His son, Dr. John Collins Warren, married 



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Susan Powell Mason, and had I. Jonathan Mason War- 
ren, who married Anne Crowninshield, and was father 
of Rosamond Warren, who married Charles H. Gibson; 
Eleanor Warren, who married Thomas Motley, Jr., and 
Annie C. Warren. II. Susan Powell Warren, who mar- 
ried Charles Lyman, and had Charles Frederic Lyman, 
who married Anna Mason Grant, and was father of 
Annie Lyman. III. Emily Warren, who married William 
Appleton, and was mother of Emily Appleton, who mar- 
ried J. Arthur Beebe. 

Dr. John Warren's daughter, Rebecca Warren, married 
John Ball Brown, and was mother of Rebecca Warren 
Brown. 

Note. The preceding sketch of the Life of Dr. John Warren was pre- 
pared for the Book of Lineage of the members of the Warren and Prescott 
Chapter by Miss Rebecca Warren Brown, grand-daughter of Dr. John 
Warren. She formed the Warren and Prescott Chapter in December 1891, 
it being the first Chapter formed in Massachusetts. 

It was called the " Warren and Prescott Chapter" after the two brothers 
General Joseph Warren, and Dr. John Warren, and their friend Colonel 
William Prescott. 



t Mrs. Henry Loring Austin (died 1894) descends from 

1. 
Simeon Sampson, born 1736, in Kingston, died June 22, 
1789, at Plympton, son of Peleg and Mary (Ring) Samp- 
son. He married Deborah Gushing. 

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War he was 
appointed by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts 
first naval captain in the service of the country. He at 
once took command of the brig Independence, belonging to 
the colony, and which was built at Kingston under his 



10 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

direction. In this vessel he was eminently successful, and 
in one cruise captured five prizes, among which was the 
Roebuck, Captain White, in the summer of 1776. 

His daughter, Lydia Gushing Sampson, married Wil- 
liam Goodwin, and had Isaac Goodwin, who married 
Eliza Hammatt, and was father of Jane Goodwin, who 
married Henry Loring Austin. 

II. 

Abraham Hammatt, officer in military company raised 
in Plymouth, 1677. His daughter, Eliza Hammatt, mar- 
ried Isaac Goodwin. 

Mrs. James Binner Ayer (15,688) descends from Na- 
thaniel Whittemore, born March 9, 1756, at Shrewsbury ; 
died April 28, 1836, at Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
He married Phebe Waite. 

He enlisted in Capt. Isaac Gleason's company. Col. 
John Nixon's regiment, Massachusetts line. He served 
one year in 1776-7 and was on duty in New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. He also served nine months in Captain 
Gager's Co., Colonel Hay's regiment. He was on the 
U. S. Pension Roll at the time of his death. 

His daughter, Lucy Whittemore, married William Far- 
well, and had Nathaniel Whittemore Farwell, who mar- 
ried Eliza Fletcher, and was father to Mary Eliza Farwell, 
who married James Binner Ayer. 

Mrs. Elisha Dillingham Bangs (22,753) descends from 
Simeon Skillings, born December 17, 1747, at Scarbor- 
ough, Me,; died there January 2, 1804, son of Edward and 
Sarah (Mills) Skillings. He married Mary Skillings. 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. it 

He served six months as a private in Capt. Benjamin 
Larrabee's Co., Col. Jonathan Mitchell's regiment, being 
engaged in fortifying at Falmouth, Me. 

His son, William Skiliings, married Sally Wood, and 
had David Nelson Skiliings, who married Mary Maguire, 
and was father to Georgiana Skiliings, who married 
Elisha Dillingham Bangs. 

Mrs. Dana Prescott Bartlett (7,494) descends from 

I. 
Nehemiah Brown, born July, 1745, at Ipswich ; died 
June, 1812, son of Elisha and Lydia Brown. He mar- 
ried Mary Choate. 

He served as Corporal in Capt. Moses Jewett's Co., 
Third regiment, (Col. John Baker's); marched on the 
Lexington alarm from Ipswich to Medford ; served three 
days. Again, as Sergeant in Capt. Robert Perkin's Co., 
Light Horse Volunteers, Third Essex County regiment, 
(Major Charles Smith's), September; 27 to November 7, 
1777. He also did service in guarding General Burgoyne's 
army to Prospect Hill, when Adjutant in above regiment 
under General Gates in Northern Department, September 
27 to November 17, 1777. 

His son, Nehemiah Brown, married Susanna Smith, 
and had Ammi Brown, who married Esther Galbraith, 
and was father of Alice Galbraith Brown, who married 
Dana Prescott Bartlett. 

II. 

Joshua Smith, born December 5, 1751, at Ipswich, died 
here June 3, 1809; son of Adam and Elizabeth (Welles) 
Smith. He married Hepzibah Patch. 



12 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

He served for five days as private in Capt. Daniel 
Roger's Co., wliicii marclied on tlie Lexington alarm. 
Again as private in Capt. Robert Perkins' Co. of Light 
Horse Volunteers above mentioned. 

His daughter, Susanna Smith, married Nehemiah 
Brown. 

in. 

John Patch, born 1721, at Ipswich, died there Decem- 
ber 18, 1799; son of John and Mercy (Potter) Patch. He 
married Abigail Patch. 

He was on the Committee of Correspondence and In- 
spection for Ipswich, and otherwise took an active part in 
the struggle for Independence. 

His daughter, Hepzibah Patch, married Joshua Smith. 

IV. 

Stephen Choate, born November, 1727, at Essex, died 
October 19, 1815 ; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Burn- 
ham) Choate. He married Mary Low. 

He was on the Committee of Correspondence and In- 
spection during the Revolution, Justice of the Sessions 
Court, and Representative to the General Court, 1776-9. 

His daughter, Mary Choate, married Nehemiah Brown. 

V. 

John Taggart, born February 11 or 22 at Roxbury, 
died November 15, 1832, at Dublin, N. H.; son of John 
and Barbara Taggart. He married Anna Eames. 

He signed the Association test ; was at the Battle of 
Bunker Hill, and was Ensign in the Revolutionary Army. 

His son, David Taggart, married Anna Patterson, and 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. i3 

had Emily Taggart, who married Samuel Gilbreth, and 
had Esther Galbraith, who married Ammi Brown. 

Mrs. James H. Beal (1,055) descends from Joseph Wil- 
liams, born April 10, 1708, at Roxbury, died there May 20, 
1798 ; son of Joseph and Abigail (Davis) Williams. He 
married I. Martha, daughter of Henry and Martha (Dun- 
ning) Howell, II. April 5, 1770, Mrs. Hannah (Craft) 
Dudley. 

He was Colonel of the First, or Boston, Regiment of 
Militia, and served in the French wars ; was distinguished 
for energy, courage and force of character, and rendered 
eminent services to the Revolutionary cause. He was the 
first representative chosen from the town of Roxbury to 
urge the repeal of the Stamp Act, and on May 26, 1769, he 
recommended, in that capacity, a correspondence between 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the As- 
semblies of the other Provinces, to strive by every con- 
stitutional means to obtain the repeal of the Revenue Acts. 
He belonged to the Committee chosen by Roxbury Town 
Meeting, three days after the Boston Massacre, to wait on 
Governor Hutchinson, and urge the immediate removal of 
the British troops from the town. He was a friend and 
helper to Samuel Adams, and took a foremost part in the 
eleven months' siege of Boston, of which Roxbury bore 
the brunt. 

His children were (by first wife): i, Abigail, married 
Samuel May; 2, Martha, married William Williams; 3, 
Henry Howell ; 4, Joseph ; 5, Stephen ; 6, Samuel ; 7, 
John ; 8, Mary, married, (i), Nathaniel Tilton ; (2), Na- 
thaniel Wait; 9, Sarah, married William Dudley. (By 



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second wife): lo, Hannah, married Ebenezer Heath; ii, 
Jeremiah; 12, Nathaniel Whiting; 13, Dudley; 14, Bet- 
sey, married Stedman Williams; 15, Jeremiah. All of 
these but the two Jeremiahs left children. His grandson. 
Col. John May, was one of the Boston tea-party. 

His daughter, Abigail Williams, married Samuel May, 
and had Sarah May, who married Capt. John Holland, 
and had Sarah May Holland, who married Dr. Zabdiel 
Boylston Adams, and was mother of Louisa Adams, who 
married James H. Beal. 

Mrs. J. Arthur Beebe (1,006). (See Appleton). 



Miss Louise Bennett Bigelow, 4,755. ") 

t Mrs. William Lawrence Frost, j- descend from 

t Mrs. Augustus Lowell, 2,802, J 



Timothy Bigelow, born at Worcester August 12, 1739, 
died there March 31, 1790; son of Daniel and Elizabeth 
(Whitney) Bigelow. He married, July i, 1762, Anna, 
daughter of Samuel and Anna (Rankin) Andrews. 

He was a blacksmith by trade, and was well-to-do, hav- 
ing a thriving business, and his wife having brought him 
a good property. On the opening of hostilities he at 
once raised a regiment of minute-men, and marched as 
their colonel on the Lexington alarm. The fine discipline 
of this regiment excited the admiration of General Wash- 
ington. He was present with the army at Saratoga, Valley 
Forge, Verplanck's Point, Monmouth, West Point, and on 
the disastrous expedition of Arnold to Quebec, where he 
was captured in December, 1775, but afterward exchanged 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. I5 

in August, 1776. On every occasion he showed the most 
undaunted courage and patriotism. He also served on the 
Committee of Correspondence. 

On the close of the War he tried to resume his busi- 
ness, to which his long absence had proved very disas- 
trous, while the hardships to which he had been exposed 
had undermined his constitution. He had somewhat lost 
his discernment, was imposed upon by designing persons, 
some of whom were false friends, persuaded to accept too 
great liabilities, and becoming involved in difficulties, was 
immured in a debtor's prison, where it is both painful and 
disgraceful to relate that this high-minded man and heroic 
soldier was allowed to end his days. A monument erected 
in Central Square, Worcester, testifies to his patriotic ser- 
vices. 

His son, Hon. Timothy Bigelow, married Lucy Prescott, 
and had Rev. Andrew Bigelow, who married Amelia Sar- 
gent Stanwood, and had Timothy Bigelow, who married 
Louisa Jane Bennett, and was father of Louise Bennett 
Bigelow, and of Aimee Stanwood Bigelow, who married 
William Lawrence Frost. Hon. Timothy Bigelow had 
also a daughter, Katharine Bigelow, who married Hon. 
Abbott Lawrence, and was mother of Katharine Bigelow 
Lawrence, who married Augustus Lowell. (See Frost and 
Lowell.) 

H. 

Oliver Prescott, born April 27, 1731, at Groton, died 
November 17, 1804, at Groton ; son of Hon. Benjamin and 
Abigail (Oliver) Prescott. He married, February, 1756, 
Lydia, daughter of David and Abigail Baldwin. 



f6 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

He graduated from Harvard College in 1750. He was a 
physician of distinguished skill and unremitting diligence. 
It is related of him that he had a steady horse so 
trained that he could sleep on its back while in his long 
professional rides. He was a Fellow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was appointed by the 
State Brigadier-General in 1776, was on the Executive 
Council in 1777, and was appointed by the National 
government Third Major-General in 1778, and Second in 
1 781 ; though never called into active service. 

His daughter, Lucy Prescott, married Hon. Timothy 
Bigelow. 

Mrs. Mary Frances Blake (21,037) descends from David 
Nevins, born September 12, 1747, at Canterbury, Conn., 
died at New York City January 21, 1838. He married 
Mary, daughter of Col. Simon Lothrop, of Norwich, 
Conn., commander of a regiment from that colony under 
Gen. Roger Wolcott, at the siege of Louisburg in 1745. 

David Nevins was ensign, June, 1775, in the Sixth 
Connecticut regiment ; afterwards. Lieutenant and Cap- 
tain. 

His son, David Nevins, married Mary Hubbard, and had 
Samuel Nevins, who married Eliza West, and had Mary 
Hubbard Nevins, who married Francis Stanton Blake, and 
was mother of Mary Frances Blake. 

Mrs. Samuel Parkman Blake (6.801) descends from 
Jonathan Jackson, born June 4, 1743, at Boston, died 
there March, 1810. He married Hannah Tracy. 

He was a member of the Committee of Safety, 1774-5 '» 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 17 

of the Massachusetts General Court, 1776-7 ; of the Con- 
tinental Congress, 1780. 

His daughter, Mary Jackson, married Henry Lee, and 
had Mary Cabot Lee, who married George Higginson,and 
was mother of Mary Lee Higginson, who married Samue 
Parkman Blake. 

Mrs. Buckminster Brown (5,127). (See Appieton). 

Mrs Howard Nicholson Brown (21,039) descends from 
John Allyn, born May 20, 1740, in Connecticut, died 
December 21, 1829, at Berlin, Conn. He married Lydia 
Burnam. 

He served among the troops about Boston in the Sec- 
ond Conn., Colonel Wolcott's regiment, January, 1776. 
Again, as Lieutenant and Adjutant in Wadsworth's 
brigade, sent to re-inforce General Washington in Long 
Island in the summer of 1776. He was enrolled among 
the troops under the command of General Gates in 1777. 

His son, Henry S. Allyn, married Asenath Scovill, and 
had Ruth Amelia Allyn, who married Isaac Lucius Morse, 
and had Mary Frances Morse, who married Jacob Wicks, 
and was mother of Inez Aletha Wicks, who married Rev. 
Howard Nicholson Brown. 

Miss Rebecca Warren Brown (246). (See Appieton). 

Miss Sarah Kingsbury Burgess (2,343) descends from 
Prince Burgess, born May 24, 1749, at Waltham, died 
there Nov. 17, 1832. He married Martha Crowell. 

He was one of a company of minute-men who marched 
from Wareham to Marshfield on the Lexington alarm. 



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He went as lieutenant, with others, to Rhode Island, and 
was in the battle fought by General Sullivan at the south 
end of the island. It is said they all fought bravely. He 
was chosen by the town of Rochester, March 8, 1777, a 
member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection 
and Safety. 

His son, Ebenezer Burgess, married Abigail Bromfield 
Phillips, and had Edward Phillips Burgess, who married 
Mary Burgess Kingsbury, and was father of Sarah Kings- 
bury Burgess. 

Mrs. George S. Burton (10,051) descends from Eleazer 
Jenckes, born March 3, 1747, at Pawtucket, R. I., died 
there September 23, 1822. He married Silence Shaw. 

He was captain of a company in Col. John Mathew- 
son's regiment in the expedition to Rhode Island, and 
served August 6 to 27, 1778. 

His daughter, Charlotte Jenckes, married Luke Hitch- 
cock, and had Louisa Hitchcock, who married Edward 
Franklin Miller, and had Henry Franklin Miller, who 
married Frances Virginia Child, and was father of Frances 
Virginia Miller, who married George S. Burton. 

Mrs. Alvin Bliss Butterfield, (15,687) ) descend 

Mrs. Thomas Goddard Frothingham, (8,447) ) from 
Ephraim Cook, born at Menotomy, now Arlington, 
died there April 3, 1824; son of Ephraim and Nancy 
(Hall) Cook. He married, December, 1777, Hannah 
Crosby. 

He served as Private, Corporal, Bombardier and Ser- 
geant, in Capt. Nathaniel Dunnell's Co., Col. John 



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Crane's Artillery regiment, from December 24, 1776, 
through the war. 

His children were: i, Hannah ; 2, Ephraim ; 3, Isaac; 
4, Sally ; 5, Jaazaniah ; 6, Simeon ; 7, Polly ; 8, Sukey. 

His son, Isaac Cook, married Polly Cutter, and had 
Emily Cook, who married James Nason, and was mother 
of Emily Caroline Nason, who married Alvin Bliss Butter- 
field, and Isaac Cook, who married Elizabeth Morse, and 
was father of Frances Adeline Cook, who married Thomas 
Goddard Frothingham. 

Mrs. Samuel Carr (15,690) descends from 
Jonathan Holman, born August 13, 1732, at Sutton, 
died February 25, 1814. He married Susanna Trask. 

He fought in the French and Indian War, and attained 
the commission of major, and at the outbreak of the 
Revolution enlisted with that rank in the first regiment 
sent out from Sutton and the neighboring towns for eight 
months; then was appointed colonel of the Fifth Mass. 
Regt., February 7, 1776. This regiment marched to 
Rhode Island, Long Island, White Plains, Bennington 
and Saratoga, and after Burgoyne's surrender was honor- 
ably discharged. 

Samuel Holman continued his aid to the cause in many 
ways, by raising troops, forwarding supplies, etc. He had 
several sons in Maine, and made them occasional visits, 
going always on horseback and riding as a rule seventy 
miles a day. Being in Boston on his way to Maine, when 
peace was declared, he started with the express, which was 
sent out from there to Portland, but outrode it, and was 



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the first to proclaim to the citizens of Portland the news of 
peace and independence. 

His daughter, Susan Holman, married Asa Waters, and 
had Adelia Augusta Waters, who married Rev. Increase 
Niles Tarbox, D.D., and was mother of Susan Waters 
Tarbox, who married Samuel Carr. 



Mrs. John Healey Childe (22,752) descends from 
Joseph Vose, born December 7, 1739, at Milton, died 

there May 22, 1816; son of Elijah and Sarah (Bent) 

Vose. He married Sarah How. 

He served as colonel of the district militia from his 
native town, and then as major in Gen. Heath's division. 
On November 4, 1775, he was commissioned lieutenant- 
colonel of Greatorex's 24th Regt.; on February 21, 1777, 
colonel of the ist Mass. Regt., and joined the main army 
under Washington. He was present at Monmouth, and in 
Sullivan's campaign in Rhode Island. In 1778 he was 
appointed colonel of a regiment of light infantry, with 
which he participated in the siege of Yorktown, and the 
surrender of Cornwallis. He was in the thickest of the 
battle, and had two horses shot under him. At the close 
of the war he was made brigadier general by brevet. He 
was an original member of the Cincinnati. A number of 
letters from Gen. Lafayette to him are in the possession 
of his family. 

His daughter, Dorothy Vose, married Davis Sumner, 
and had Frederic Augustus Sumner, who married Lydia 
Wilkinson, and had Lydia Wilkinson Sumner, who 



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married Henry Augustus Clark, and was mother of Jessie 
Duncan Clark, who married John Healey Childe. 

Mrs. Albert Childs (2,168) descends from 

I. 

Thomas Dudley, born October 27, 1755, died March 7, 
1790; son of Thomas and Hannah (Whiting) Dudley, 
and great-great-grandson of Gov. Thomas Dudley. He 
married Abigail Weld. 

He served as first lieutenant, Co. 15, ist Suffolk Regt. 
under Col. William Mackintosh and Capt. Moses Whit- 
ing ; commissioned twice later in same office. 

His son, David Dudley, married Hannah Davis, and 
was father of Hannah M. Dudley, who married Albert 

Childs. 

II. 

Aaron Davis, born April 26, 1709, at Roxbury, died 
there April 29, 1777; son of Ebenezer and Hannah 
(White) Davis. He married Mary Perrin. 

He was one of two delegates to the first, second and 
third Provincial Congresses, 1774-6, from Roxbury, member 
of Committee of Correspondence of Suffolk county, and 
chairman of all town meetings at the time when resolu- 
tions were passed protesting against the acts of the 
Crown, and favoring the dissolving of all relations with 
England ; also captain of a company of minute-men 
formed in 1774. His son, Moses Davis, also served in 
Col. John Greaton's minute-men. 

His daughter, Hannah Davis, married David Dudley. 

Mrs. Charles H. Colburn (8,445) descends from 
Abijah Draper, born May 19, 17375 at Dedham, died 
there May i, 1770. He married Alice Eaton. 



22 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

He succeeded his father, Capt. James Draper, in his 
landed estate at Green Lodge, Dedham. He was an 
active, energetic man, public spirited, and always ready to 
bear his part in public enterprises. He was one of three 
citizens chosen to erect a monument to William Pitt, in 
1776, whose base still exists at Dedham, and is called the 
" Pillar of Liberty." 

He held every office in the militia up to that of major, 
and in that capacity commanded a regiment under Wash- 
ington. He was present at the battles of Lexington and 
Concord Bridge. 

His son, Ira Draper, married Abigail Richards, and had 
George Draper, who married Hannah Brown Thwing, and 
was father of Frances E. Draper, who married Charles H. 
Colburn. 

Mrs. Benjamin E. Cole (22,754) descends from 

I. 

John Winn, died on his farm near Newburgh, N. Y., 
January 8, 1827. 

He served as captain in a company of rangers raised in 
the County of Tryon (New York) then so called, during 
the Revolutionary War. His name appears as appointed 
August I, 1776, on the muster roll of that organization, 
dated at Lake Otsego, September 25, 1776. Again ap- 
pointed captain in Col. John Harper's regiment, 5th Regt. 
Militia Rangers, Tryon county, from August i, 1777, and 
again from May 11, to November 30, 1780. 

His son, Isaac Winn, married Elizabeth Smith, and had 
John S. Winn, who married Matilda Caroline Irish, and 
was father of Margaret Celeste Winn, who married Ben- 
jamin E. Cole. 



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11. 

Benjamin Allen, born at Northfield, N. H., December, 
1724, died April 26, 1788, at Charlestown. He married 
Peggy Spofford. 

He served two months in Capt. Abel Walker's com- 
pany, Hobart's regiment, Stark's brigade, in the Northern 
Continental Army at Saratoga ; discharged from service 
September 20, 1777- 

His daughter, Prudence Allen, married Isaac Farweil, 
and had Amanda Farweil, who married Perry Irish, and 
was mother of Matilda Caroline Irish, who married John 
S.Winn. 

Mrs. David Hill Coolidge (17,606) descends from 

I. 

Benjamin Shurtleff, born October 14, 1748, at Plympton, 
died July 8, 1821, at Carver; son of Benjamin and 
Susanna (Cushman) Shurtleff, and descendant of many 
of the Mayflower emigrants. He married June 7, 1773, 
Abigail Atwood. 

He was a newly married man with two infants, farming 
on his old ancestral acres at Plympton, when the war 
broke out. He served in Capt. Nathaniel Shaw's com- 
pany. Col. James Warren's regiment, which marched on 
the alarm of April 19, i775, from Plymouth to Marshfield. 
Again, in Lieut. T. Shurtleff's company. Col. Lothrop's 
regiment, for service in Rhode Island on the alarm of 
December 11, and served till December 25, 1776. He was 
sent to Boston on temporary service during the siege of 
that city by Washington, after which he retired to his 
rural life. He had twelve children, 



24 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

His son, Samuel Atwood Shurtleff, M. D., married 
Eliza Carleton, and was father of Isabella Shurtleff, who 
married David Hill Coolidge. 

II. 

Elijah Carleton, born October 20, 1746, died June 14, 
1816 ; son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Saunders) Carle- 
ton. Hs married July 31, 1770, Rebekah Webster. 

He served as corporal in Capt. James Jones' company 
of minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 
1775, from Methuen to Lexington. 

His son, Jonathan Carleton, married Hannah Sawyer, 
and had Eliza Carleton, who married Samuel Atwood 
Shurtleff. 

Miss Sarah Haskell Crocker (2,805) descends from 
Jonathan Glover, born June 13, 1731, at Salem, died 
January, 1805, at Boston (will probated January 21) ; 
son of Jonathan and Tabitha (Bacon) Glover. He mar- 
ried (i) October 10, 1748, Abigail, daughter of Job and 

Hannah (Martin) Burnham ; (2) Mrs. (Hitchborn) 

Greeley. 

He was colonel in the state militia, and brother of Gen. 
John Glover ; was member of State Legislature 1776-7, 
1784-9. In the Revolutionary War he armed, equipped, 
and fed, at his own expense, a large part of Gen. John 
Glover's regiment. This money was refunded to him 
after the war by the town of Marblehead. He lived there 
in a house— which is still standing — till 1800, when he re- 
moved to Boston, and lived in a house on Beacon street, 
west of Somerset street. The portraits of himself and 
his wife are in the possession of his descendants. 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 25 

His children— all by his first wife— were (i) Mary, 
married Capt. Richard James; (2) Tabitha, married 
William Bartoll ; (3) Eleanor, married (i) Lewis Gilbert ; 

(2) Skinner ; (4) Hannah, married Gerry ; 

(5) Abigail, married Rev. Ebenezer Hubbard; (6) Benja- 
min Stacey (H. C., 1781). It is believed that all of them 
have descendants living. 

His daughter Mary Glover, married Richard James, 
and had Mary James, who married Uriel Crocker, who 
married Sarah Kidder Haskell, and was father of Sarah 
Haskell Crocker. 

Mrs. Uberte C. Crosby (2,803) descends from 

I. 

Elijah Sibley, born October 30, 1728, at Sutton, died 
there, aged ninety-five ; son of William and Sarah (Dike) 
Sibley, and great grandson of John Sibley, the emigrant. 
He married, (i) December 12, T751, MaryCarriel ; (2) Feb- 
ruary 9, 1778, Mrs. Abigail Stone. 

He was drummer in the so called "Sutton Regiment," 
and was at Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. 

II. 

His son Daniel Sibley, born April 14, 1757, at Sutton, 
died there. He married, April 14, 1779, Phoebe Prince. 

He was one of the minute-men from Sutton who 
marched to Concord on the Lexington alarm. They 
formed a part of the right wing of the army, under com- 
mand of Gen. John Thomas at Bunker Hill. This re- 
giment enlisted for eight months, served in and around 
Boston till January i, 1776, when it was honorably dis- 
charged. Another Sutton regiment was immediately 



26 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

formed, destined to a severe service of nearly two years, 
during wiiich it was engaged in many battles, and finally 
in that of Saratoga. After the battle it was designated 
" to take possession of Fort Edwards, and to hold it until 
the dispersion of Burgoyne's army," which it did. 

Daniel Sibley's son, Daniel Sibley, married Anna 
Morse, and had Elijah Sibley, whose daughter, Almira 
Esther Sibley, married Uberte C. Crosby. 

Mrs. Benjamin Chandler Cummings, (4,325,) > descend 

Mrs. Greely Stevenson Curtis, (6,804,) ) from 

Isaac Appleton, born May 31, 1731, at Ipswich, died 
February 25, 1806, at New Ipswich, N. H. He married 
Mary Adams. 

He was a member of the Provincial Congress which 
met at Exeter, N. H., in 1775; a member of the New 
Ipswich Committee of Correspondence and Safety from 
1778 to 1780. In October, 1776, he joined a company that 
marched to New York, and was present at the battle of 
White Plains, returning at the end of the year. 

His son, Moses Appleton, married Ann Clark, and had 
Ann Louisa Appleton, who married Samuel Wells, and 
was mother of Anne Appleton Wells, who married 
Benjamin Chandler Cummings. 

Another son, Nathan Appleton, married Harriot Coffin 
Sumner, and was father of Harriot Appleton, who married 
Greely Stevenson Curtis. 

Mrs. Charles D. Curtis, (4,543,) > descend 
Mrs. Ephraim Gaylord Hall, (4,544,) ) from 

1. 
Jonathan Fisher, born November 25, 1743, at Dedham, 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 27 

died March 10, 1777, at Morristown, New Jersey, son of 
Jonathan and Mary (Richards) Fisher. He married 
October 22, 1766, at Dedham, Katharine, daughter of 
William and Bethial (Metcalf) Avery. 

He was a lieutenant in the Colonial army before the 
Revolution. On April 8, 1776, he was commissioned 
" second lieutenant of the fifth Co., whereof Jonathan 
Wales is captain of the Second Regt. of Militia in the 
county of Hampshire, whereof Seth Pomeroy, Esq., is 
colonel." [From original Commission, still in posses- 
sion of the family.] 

An interesting feature in connection with this Commis- 
sion is the fact that the list of signatures of witnesses is 
headed by that of James Otis, being one of the few auto- 
graphs of this patriot extant. 

Among other yellow, time-stained documents are three 
letters written from him while in camp, to his wife, and 
dated " Pixkille Hilands," from which may be quoted the 
following: "I want to see you all, but I feel very con- 
tented in my situation at present. We have bread and 
meat, but not much sass," (meaning probably vegetables.) 
'* We live in pretty good barracks. We have a prisoner 
under our guard, and expect he will be executed very soon, 
if not tomorrow. He is a Tory. I pray you to re- 
member me in your petitions to God for me, that 1 may be 
returned in safety again, and may you enjoy God's bless- 
ings while we are absent from each other. I am 

pretty well contented. We enjoy good preaching upon the 
Sabbath, and prayers night and morning, which is a great 
comfort in camp. I pray God to enable me to make a right 
improvement of everv opportunity, and return me to you 



28 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

in safety." Soon after this last letter he joined Washing- 
ton at Morristown, where he died of fever, after enduring 
great hardship in camp. One of his biographers says, 
"he was a man of much Christian worth, and left this 
world in calm and cheerful expectation of a better." 

His children were (i) Jonathan ; (2) Stephen ; (3) Cather- 
ine, married Seth Hewins ; (4) Mary, married Job How- 
land; (5) Rebecca; (6) William; (7) Samuel. All left 
descendants except Rebecca. 

His son. Rev. Jonathan Fisher, married Dolly Battelle, 
and had Dorothea Fisher, who married Rev. Richard 
Croisette, and was mother of Dora Fisher Croisette, who 
married Rev. Charles D. Curtis, and Alice Coggswell 
Croisette, who married Capt. Ephraim Gaylord Hill, an 
officer in the Union Army in the Civil War. 

II. 

Ebenezer Battelle or Battle, born January 7, 1727-8, at 
Dedham, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Allen) Battelle. 
He married, May 26, 1761, Prudence, daughter of Ebenezer 
and Dorothy (Childs) Draper. 

The repeal of the Stamp Act was an occasion of special 
rejoicing in Dedham, and a Committee of the "Sons of 
Liberty," of which he was a prominent member, was 
chosen to erect the famous Pillar of Liberty or " Pitt's 
Head," and his name is still read on the granite base as it 
stands on the Dedham Church Green. 

This company was hastily summoned, and in an in- 
credibly short time the farmers gathered from the remotest 
parts of the parish and formed on the green near the 
tavern, Aaron Whitby leaving his plow in the furrow, 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 29 

and his oxen to be unyoked and driven home by his wife. 
How the command of Capt. Battelle to " march " must 
have rung in their ears ! 

He was captain of the Dover (fourth parish of Ded- 
ham), company of minute-men, sixty-five of whom, with 
his son among the number, marched under him at the 
Lexington alarm. He was commissioned captain. May 10, 
1776, served on Dorchester Heights, 1776, in Col. William 
Mcintosh's regiment, also in Col. Jonathan Titcomb's. 
He was at Castle Island 1776, at Providence in 1777, at 
Roxbury in 1778; was made second major in 1780. 

His children were (i) Prudence ; (2) Ebenezer; (3) Pru- 
dence, married Timothy Stow ; (4) Abigail ; (5) Sarah, mar- 
ried Reuben Newell ; (6) Joseph ; (7) Lucy, married Elea- 
zar Everett; (8) Anna, married Jonathan Fisher; (9) 
Dolly, married Rev. Jonathan Fisher; (10) Hannah; (11) 
Abigail, married Solomon Harwood. All have left de- 
scendents except the first Prudence, and Abigail, Joseph, 
and perhaps the latter Abigail. 

His daughter Dolly married Rev. Jonathan Fisher. 

III. 
Of another great-grandfather of these members, 
Jeremiah Powers, one of the early settlers of Concord, 
Mass., and who later helped to found the town of Green- 
wich, Mass., it is stated, " He was a man of prominence 
during the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars." 
Whether he was ever enrolled in the army has not yet 
been ascertained. 

Mrs. Greeley Stevenson Curtis (6,804) (see Cummings.) 



30 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

Mrs. Langdon Shannon Davis (2,804) descends from 

Joseph Bartlett, born 1738; son of Joseph and Sarah 
(Morton) Bartlett, and great-great grandson of Robert 
Bartlett, the emigrant. He was a descendant of Richard 
Warren, the pilgrim, who traced descent from Earl 
Warrenne and William the Conqueror. He married 
Mary Bartlett. 

He was a continental soldier from Plymouth. 

His son, Frederick Bartlett, married Lydia Dunham, 
and had Helen Bartlett, who married Arthur O'Leary, 
and was mother of Helene Bartlett O'Leary, who married 
Langdon Shannon Davis. 

Mrs. Henry Thomas Dobson (2,333) descends from 

I. 

Parke Avery, born December 9, 1790, at Groton, Conn., 
died March 14, 1797; son of Col. Ebenezer and Dorothy 
(Parke) Avery, and descended from Christopher Avery, 
the emigrant, of Salisbury in England, who came in the 
Arbella, 1630, and whose son James, a captain in King 
Philip's war, built, in 1656, the Avery homestead in 
Groton, which after having been the home of eight gen- 
erations of the name was burned in 1894. 

Parke Avery married in 1735, at Groton, Mary Latham, 
a descendant of the emigrant, Cary Latham. 

He was a clergyman, and for years one of the most 
prominent citizens in Groton, from being a man of 
wealth, and having taken the initiative in a very bitter 
fight against the established order in ecclesiastical matters. 
He was one of the Committee of Inspection for 1775 to rep- 
resent to the General Assembly the situation and circum- 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 31 

stances of the town of Groton, and the necessity of a forti- 
fication on Groton Heights. He became a member of the 
Legislature in 1776, and was one of the number who 
voted to ratify the Declaration of Independence of the 
United Colonies at the sixth session. 

His children were (i) Dorothy, married John Morgan ; 
(2) Abigail, married Capt. Robert Niles ; (3) Parke; (4) 
Jasper, killed in battle at Fort Griswold, September 6, 
1781 ; (5) Eunice, married Solomon Morgan ; (6) Ebenezer, 
an ensign in the Revolutionary War, severely wounded at 
Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781 ; (7) Stephen, an officer 
in Brigadier-General Huntington's regiment ; (8) Simeon, 
four years adjutant in the same regiment; distinguished at 
Germantown, Monmouth, Valley Forge and Stony Point, 
appointed aid to Gen. Washington at the latter's request; 
member of the Society of the Cincinnati ; (9) Elisha, an 
officer in the same regiment, killed at Fort Griswold, 
September 6, 1781. All six of the sons were in the 
Revolutionary Army, as were so many of the family that 
they are known as the Revolutionary Averys. Nine were 
killed in the battle of Fort Griswold, and their names ap- 
pear on the monument at Groton. 

II. 
His son, Parke Avery, born March 22, I74i> died De- 
cember 20, 1821; married, 1763, Hannah, daughter of 
James and Mary (Morgan) Morgan, the latter a descend- 
ant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower. 

He served in Boston, New York, Harlem Heights, 
White Plains, Long Island, and Valley Forge; and re- 
ceived many severe wounds at the battle of Fort Griswold, 
September 6, 1781, the most serious being from a bayonet, 



32 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

which split his forehead and knocked out his eye, and the 
bone above it, leaving the brain exposed, and a deep fur- 
row up and down the forehead after the wound was 
healed. He was left for dead, and came to his senses as 
he was being carried out on the shoulders of those who 
were collecting the bodies, who were startled by the 
abrupt and military order from his lips, " Keep still, boys ! 
You shake me!" His young son, Thomas, was killed 
fighting bravely by his side. 

Although over sixty years old when the neighborhood 
was threatened with attack in the War of 1812, he en- 
listed from June 1-16, 1813, and again August 9-23, 1814. 
He was especially honored by Pres. Monroe at a reception 
given to veterans at Fort Griswold, Groton Heights, in 
1817. 

His children were (i) Thomas, born 1764, killed in 
battle of Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781 ; (2) Youngs ; 
(3) Hannah : (4) Silas Dean (name changed to Thomas 
after his brother's death). 

His son. Youngs Avery, married Eunice Latham, and had 
Parke William Avery, who married Clarissa Belton 
Avery, and had Jefferson Avery, who married Jane Bab- 
cock, and was father of Mary Evelyn Avery, who married 
Henry Thomas Dobson. 

III. 

William Latham, born 1741, at Groton, Conn., died 
January 27, 1792 ; son of Jonathan and Mary (Avery) 
Latham. He married, September, 1764, at Groton, Eunice, 
daughter of Timothy and Eunice (Perkins) Forsythe. 

In 1776 he was with Washington on Dorchester 
Heights as lieutenant of artillery; then second lieu- 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 33 

tenant in Capt. Mill's company, Connecticut line. In 
1781 he was captain of the Matross company, and had 
command of Fort Ledyard. On the morning of September 
6 the British attacked New London, Conn., on the 
opposite side of the Thames River, and the Americans 
were driven over to the Groton side, where one of the 
bloodiest fights of the Revolution took place. Just previ- 
ous to the battle. Col. William Ledyard, commander of 
military district, assumed command. In this battle 
Capt. Latham was wounded in the thigh, taken prisoner 
on board a ship in New York, and afterwards exchanged. 

His children were (i) Mary, married Samuel Wals- 
worth; (2) Eunice, married Youngs Avery; (3) Lucy, 
married Nathaniel Gallup; (4) William, born i77i,was 
in Fort Griswold, and took part in the battle ; (5) Luke ; 
(6) Derastus; (7) Hannah, married Rufus Avery; James 
Mitchell ; (8) Caroline, married Rufus Avery. 

His daughter, Eunice Latham, married Youngs Avery. 

IV. 

Capt. John Avery, born January 24, 1738, at Groton, 
Conn., died January 5, 1826; son of James and Elizabeth 
Smith Avery. He married Mary, daughter of James 
Belton. 

During the Revolution he enlisted four times, and 
served as sergeant— afterwards as captain. 

His children were (i) Capt. Peter ; (2) James Belton ; (3) 
Mary, married Caleb Avery; (4) Elizabeth, married 
Nicholas Lester ; (5) John Sands. 

His son, James Belton Avery, married Esther, daughter 
of George Denison, and a descendant of Elder William 



34 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

Brewster, and of Capt. George Denison, distinguished in 
the hidian Wars. Their daughter, Clarissa Belton Avery, 
married Parke William Avery. 

V. 

George Tillotson, born November 14, 1754, at Lyme, 
Conn., died October 4, 1738; son of William and 
Susanna (Champion) Tillotson. He married Sila Munsell. 

He served as a private in Capt. Samuel Mathers' com- 
pany, Connecticut Line. After the war he became a 
physician. 

His daughter, Almira Tillotson, married Orville Mor- 
gan Babcock, and had Jane Babcock, who married Jef- 
ferson Avery. 

VL 

John Munsell, born 1735, in Lyme, Conn., died July 17, 
1819; son of John and Mary Munsell. He married, De- 
cember 24, 1761, at Lyme, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel 
McCrary. 

He served in Capt. John Riley's company, Connecticut 
Line, February i-December 31, 1781. 

His daughter, Sila Munsell, married Dr. George 
Tillotson. 

VII. 

it is believed that George Denison, born January 16, 
1730, father of Esther Denison, wife of James Belton 
Avery, was also a Revolutionary soldier, as family tradi- 
tion runs to that effect, and the name occurs on the war 
roll of Connecticut pensioners ; but the facts have not as 
yet been verified. 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 35 

Mrs Samuel Eliot, (966,) 1 

Mrs. John Holmes Morison, (967,) V descend from 

Mrs. Alexander S. Porter, (4,972, ) J 

James Otis, born 1702, died 1778; son of John and 
Mary (Bacon) Otis. He married Mary Alleyne. 

He was judge of probate, colonel of militia, councillor, 
and one of the most distinguished lawyers of his time, 
and used all his influence for the cause of his country. 

For the life of his son James Otis the younger, see 
" Porter." His son Samuel Alleyne Otis, married Eliza- 
beth Gray, and had Harrison Gray Otis, married Sally 
Foster, and had William Foster Otis, married Emily 
Marshall, and was father of Emily Marshall Otis, who 
married Samuel Eliot, and was mother of Emily Marshall 
Eliot, who married John Holmes Morison. 

Mrs. George Frederick Evans, (10,053,) descends from 

1. 

John Odiorne, born at Rye, N. H., died there 1790, son 
of John Odiorne. 

He served in Capt. Jonathan Robinson's Co., sent out 
from Portsmouth, N. H., to reinforce the New York Army, 
September 23, 1776. Again, as corporal, on Muster Roll 
of 34 men raised out of First N. H. Regt. by an order of 
Maj.-Gen. Folsom, December 7, 1776, to reinforce the 
Continental Army at New York till March i, 1777. 

His son, Benjamin Odiorne, married Mary Beck, and 
had George Beck Odiorne, who married Ruth Yeaton, 
and had Augustus Walbach Odiorne, who married Mary 
Nutter, and was father of Katharine Odiorne, who mar- 
ried George Frederick Evans. 



36 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

II. 

John Nutter, born March 7, 1757, at Newington, died 
November 8, 1849, at Barnstead ; son of Hate-Evil Nutter. 
He married Anne Simes. 

He served in the Revolutionary War with the rank of 
major, was in the battles of Bunker Hill and White 
Plains; fought under Gen. Stark and Gen. Reed. 

His son, John Nutter, married Elizabeth Dame, and 
had Joseph Simes Nutter, who married Phoebe Pickering, 
and was father of Mary Nutter, who married Augustus 
Walbach Odiorne. 

Mrs. Evans also descends lineally from Winthrop 
Pickering and John Hoyt, who assisted in the establish- 
ment of American Independence. 

Miss Alice Farnsworth, (3,974,) > descend 

Mrs. James Frothingham Hunnewell, (2,331,) ) from 

I. 

Asa Goodale, of Sutton, son of Samuel Goodale and his 
wife Silence, daughter of John and Ruth (Hill) Holbrook, 
married August 12, 1784, Mary, daughter of Joseph and 
Hannah (Leland) Rice. He was a private in Capt. Andrew 
Eliot's Company, of Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment, 
which marched from Sutton on the alarm of April 19, 1775. 
They went under the command of Col. Jonathan Holman of 
the French and Indian Wars, rode all night, and reached 
Concord as the enemy was retiring. 

At the time of the Rhode Island alarm, December 1776, 
being then corporal of Capt. Abijah Burbank's Co., Col. 
Jonathan Holman's regiment, was in service 21 days. 

He enlisted again, being Sergeant in Capt. Eliot's Co., 



Kf 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 37 

Col. Holman's regiment, when they marched to reinforce 
Northern Army at the taking of Burgoyne. He served 
then at least 30 days. He may have served later. His 
title of lieutenant was probably militia rank subsequent 
to active service. 

His daughter, Polly Goodale, married Abel Farnsworth, 
and had Ezra Farnsworth, who married Sarah Melville 
Parker, and was father to Alice Farnsworth, and Sarah 
Melville Farnsworth, who married James Frothingham 
Hunnewell. 

II. 

Abel Parker, of Pepperell, afterwards of Jaffrey, N. H. 
son of Samuel, and Mary, widow of Jonathan Robbins, 
and daughter of John Proctor, was born in Westford, 
March 25, 1753. The family removed to Pepperell about 
1767. He died May 2, 1831, at Jaffrey, N. H. He mar- 
ried, October 14, 1777, at Pepperell, Edith, daughter of 
Jedidiah and Ruth (Shattuck) Jewett. 

At the Lexington alarm he was a private in Capt Nut- 
ting's Co., Col. William Prescott's regiment, and marched 
to West Cambridge too late to take part. 

On April 28 he enlisted in same regiment and Com 
pany for eight months, and served at Cambridge, at the 
siege of Boston. He was not included in the detail for the 
Bunker Hill force, but persuaded a comrade by giving him 
his rations of spirits to let him take his place. He was on 
patrol that night on the bank of Charles River toward 
Boston. In the battle he was wounded by a bullet (now in 
the family) in the front of the leg, but continued fighting 
till his musket was too foul for him to ram down the bul- 
let, when he withdrew to the fort on the hill-top, and used 



38 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

his musket as a club in the final defense until Prescott 
ordered the retreat. As he hobbled out of the fort a volley 
from the enemy struck down the man on either side of 
him, and sent a ball through his shirt. 

Using his musket as a crutch he hobbled to the Neck, 
where under the cross-fire of the British ships his strength 
gave out, but he was carried off on the shafts of a chaise 
tilled with wounded. He returned to service in August. 

in 1776 he was Sergeant in Capt. Job Shattuck's Co., 
Col. Jonathan Read's regiment, and served on the Hudson ; 
was at Saratoga and Ticonderoga, and volunteered for the 
attack on Putnam's Point. In 1778 he was Ensign of 
Capt. Joseph Boynton's Co., Col. Nathaniel Wade's 
regiment. For three months he commanded a detachment 
at Providence, R. 1.; was stationed at East Greenwich, and 
at Kingston. In August was with Sullivan's Army before 
Newport. 

He was commissioned lieutenant October 28, 1779, and 
was one of those detached from Middlesex and Worcester, 
to reinforce the Continental Army on the Hudson. 

He held many offices, from Presidential Elector, (1824,) 
and Judge of Probate, down. 

His son, Isaac Parker, married Sarah Ainsworth, and 
was father of Sarah Melville Parker, who married Ezra 
Farnsworth. 

III. 

Laban Ainsworth, born July 19, 1757, at Woodstock, 
Conn., died 1858, at Jaffrey, N. H., son of William and 
Mary (Marcy) Ainsworth. He married Mary Minot. He 
graduated at Dartmouth College, 1778. He was incapaci- 
tated for military service by an attack of scarlet fever which 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 39 

left his left arm useless through life. He studied theology 
with Rev. Dr. West of Stockbridge. Served six months 
as Chaplain with Maj. McKinstry's Corps, New York 
State Militia. He used to say that as he could not fight, 
when in action he served the powder. 

He was for seventy years pastor at Jaffrey, N. H., 
widely known and respected through all that region. 

His daughter, Sarah Ainsworth, married Abel Parker. 

Mrs. Benjamin Stow Farnsworth (7,840) descends from 

Richard Fiske, born February 25, 1750, at Framingham, 
died there March 9, 1824, son of Isaac and Hannah 
(Haven) Fiske, and great-great grandson of Nathan 
Fiske, the emigrant, of the Fiskes of Stradhaugh, 
Saxfield, Co. Suffolk, in England. He married Zebiah 
Pond. 

He served as lieutenant in the militia company of Fram- 
ingham, January 20,-April i, 1776, under a call by Gen. 
Washington for the Continental Army at Cambridge. In 
1777 he was ranked as captain in the same company, 
which was called as part of Col. Abner Perry's regiment, 
July 27, 1780, on the " Rhode Island Alarm " for fourteen 
days. On December 2, 1780, he was elected by the town 
of Framingham as one of its recruiting officers. 

His daughter, Polly Fiske, married Samuel Valentine, 
Jr., and was mother of Eliza Fiske Valentine, who mar- 
ried Benjamin Stow Farnsworth. 

Mrs. John Whittemore Farwell (21,040,) descends from 

Ebenezer How, born September 8, 1762, at Methuen, 

died April 15, 1829, at Holderness, N. H., son of John 



40 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

How. He married Hannah Mallon. He served as private 
in Capt. James Mallon's Co., Maj.-Gen. Hancock's regi- 
ment, on Castle Island, October 3-November 15, 1779. 
Again, in the corps of six-months' men, raised by the town 
of Methuen for the Continental Army in 1780, as private 
in Capt. Dix's Co., in camp at Springfield, July 16, 1780. 
He is described in the list as "Stature five feet eight 
inches, complexion light." Again, as corporal in Capt. 
James Mallon's Co., Col. Putnam's regiment, August 18- 
December 1781 ; and as corporal in the same, on Roll bear- 
ing date September 5, 1782. His son, James Howe, mar- 
ried Martha Drake, and had Lorenzo Oilman Howe, who 
married Dorcas Mallon, and was father of Ruby Frances 
Howe, who married John Whittemore Farwell. 

tMrs. Roland Fish, ) , 

... ». .,. ^. , / ^ , V h descend from 

Miss Mary Alice Fish, (18,602,) > 

I. 

Seth Pope, born March 4, 1719-20, died June 9, 1802, son 
of Captain Lemuel and Elizabeth (Hunt) Pope. He mar- 
ried, July 30, 1741, Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and 
Innocent (Head) Church. He was fourth in descent from 
Thomas Pope the emigrant. 

He lived in Dartmouth, and was one of the leading men 
in the colony during the Revolutionary period. He was 
commissioned as colonel by General Shirley. In 1771 he 
served as coroner. He was chosen as one of the Town 
Committee to report action on British taxation, July 15, 
1774. On account of his activity as a patriot his dwelling 
was burned by the British in 1778. 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 41 

Mr. Pope lived a life of retirement after the close of the 
war. He and his wife were buried in the Acushnet Ceme- 
tery, which was laid out in 1711. 

II. 

Nathaniel Pope, son of Colonel Seth and Abigail 
(Church) Pope, was born June 22, 1747, died July 17, 
1817. 

On October 14, 1790, he married Mary, daughter of 
Gideon Barstow. Her mother was Jane, daughter of 
Henry Wilson, who was an officer during the war at Cape 
Breton. 

It is related that at a dinner party given in their honor 
soon after their marriage, Mrs. Pope, who was quick at 
wit and repartee, was seated near an Englishman, who 
tauntingly said : " I hear that there were Yankees in the 
war who could neither read nor write." 

Observing that he had but three fingers on one hand she 
sharply retorted : " That may be, but I see that they 
could make their mark." 

Nathaniel Pope was engaged in the first naval action of 
the Revolution. While in command of the Success, as 
lieutenant. May 14, 1775, he recaptured two provincial 
vessels from the British sloop-of-war. Falcon, in Buzzards 
Bay. 

The sword surrendered by the commander of the Falcon 
is in the possession of Mr. Henry D. Pope, a descendant, 
and many valuable papers relating to his life are in the 
possession of Miss Fish. 

His children were, (i) Nathaniel ; (2) Wilson ; (3) 
Gideon ; (4) Joshua Loring ; (5) Alice ; (6) Lucy Barstow, 
born March 9, 1805, died September 16, 1894, married Sep- 



42 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

tember 27, 1832, Roland Fish of Fairhaven, died August 
I, 1894, son of James and Susan Fish of Falmouth, the 
latter a descendant of John Robinson of Leyden. 

Mrs. Fish was not only an exemplary wife and mother, 
but worked for the poor and needy and comforted the dis- 
tressed, leading an unselfish life. On January i, 1894, 
she became a Chapter Member Daughters of the American 
Revolution, Warren and Prescott Chapter. She wrote an 
account of her father's exploit, which was printed in the 
Journal of the Society. Her daughter is Mary Alice Fish. 

Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz, (2,972,) 

Miss Mary Goddard Fuller, (10,052,) i , , 

Mrs. Henry Sturgis Grew, (2,844,) ^- / f m 

Mrs. Horace McMurtrie, (3,970,) 

Mrs. Henry Pickering, (2349,) 

I. 

John Goddard, born May 30, (0. s.) at Brookline, died 
there April 13, 1816, son of John and Hannah (Jennison) 
(Stone) Goddard, and grandson of William Goddard the 
emigrant. He married (i) Sarah Brewer, (2) Hannah 
Seaver, from whom the Hannah Goddard Chapter, 
D. A. R. of Brookline, takes its name. 

He was present at the battle of Lexington, for which he 
armed six men. To one of these he lent a favorite gun, 
which was not returned to him ; but long afterwards at the 
close of the war, while travelling, he stopped at a country 
tavern in Worcester, and there, fastened to one of the 
crossbeams of the ceiling, he saw his long lost gun. He 
spoke of it to the landlord, who said '' No | " that he had 



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bought it of some one. Mr. Goddard told him that if it 
were his a certain mark would be found on it. It was 
taken down, and he was proved to be right. He recovered 
his property, reimbursing the landlord. 

He lived in a house which is still standing on Goddard 
Avenue, Brookline, now the property of his grandson, 
Abijah Warren Goddard, Esq. It was then a very se- 
cluded spot, and at one time he had under his charge a 
large quantity of arms and ammunition, hidden close to 
his house. He was obliged to be much away from home, 
and his wife was in continual anxiety lest the soldiers who 
were stationed near by to watch the stores should set fire 
to the powder with their pipes. They used to sit and play 
cards under a pear tree, and once this tree was struck by 
lightning, and so badly split that it had to be girded to- 
gether by iron hoops, after which it lived many years ; the 
powder was untouched. When the British occupied Bos- 
ton, and Washington was about to attack the city from 
Dorchester Heights, John Goddard conveyed arms and 
ammunition to the Heights in wagons, hidden under loads 
of wood, he himself walking by the side disguised as a 
teamster ; for greater stillness the feet of the oxen were 
covered with carpeting. His son Joseph, then a boy of 
fourteen, and some picked men of his own acted as drivers. 
He gave many wagon loads at his own expense. 

He was Commissary-General during the siege of Bos- 
ton, and was strongly urged by Washington to accompany 
him to New York, but was unable to do so on account of 
his large family of twelve sons and three daughters. 

His children (all by second wife) were, (i) John ; (2) 
Samuel ; (3) Hannah ; (4) Joseph ; (5) Benjamin ; (6) 



44 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

Lucy ; (7) Benjamin ; (8) Nathaniel ; (9) Jonathan ; (10) 
Jonathan; (11) Abijah ; (12) Abijah ; (13) Warren; (14) 
Lucy ; (15) William. 

His son, Nathaniel Goddard, married Lucretia Dana, and 
had (i) Lucretia Dana Goddard, who married Benjamin 
Apthorp Gould, and was mother of Louisa Goddard 
Gould, who married Horace McMurtrie ; {2) Mary Storer 
Goddard, who married Henry Weld Fuller, and was 
mother of Mary Goddard Fuller ; (3) Henrietta Mary 
Goddard, who married Edward Wigglesworth, and was 
mother of Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth, who married 
Walter Scott Fitz, Jane Norton Wigglesworth, who mar- 
ried Henry Sturgis Grew, and Mary Goddard Wiggles- 
worth, who married Henry Pickering. 

IL 

Amariah Dana, of Amherst, who married Dorothy May, 
sister of Col. John May, of the " Boston Tea-party." 

He fought under Col. Ethan Allen at the taking of 
Ticonderoga. 

He was father of Lucretia Dana, who married Nathaniel 
Goddard. She well remembered her uncle's going out on 
the tea-party evening, strangely dressed, and in a mys- 
terious manner. 

Miss Ernestine Louise Foster, (7,823,) descends from 
Daniel Foster, born March 12, 1762, at Ipswich, died 

August 29, 1833, at Newburyport, son of Thomas Foster, 

a captain in the "Bay State Company." He married 

Dorothy Pingry. 
He enlisted July 17, 16, 1778, in the Continental Army 

as substitute for his father, and was successively private, 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 45 

corporal, and sergeant, in which last capacity he was 
orderly in the select battalion of General Lafayette, with 
whom he formed a warm friendship, and from whom he 
received a sword as a mark of esteem. 

He held many offices after the war in the town of New- 
buryport, such as naval officer of customs, Notary Public, 
etc. 

His son, Nathaniel Foster, married Fanny Buel Brock- 
way, and had Nathaniel Foster, who married Catherine 
Louisa Woods, and was father of Ernestine Louise 
Foster. 

Mrs. George William Fox, (23,178,) ^ 

Miss Agnes Blake Poor, (3,972,) i> descend from 

Miss Lucy T. Poor, (3,973,) J 

L 

Ezekiel Merrill, born December 9, 1747, at West New- 
bury, died March 16, 1830, at Andover, Maine, son of 
Roger and Mary (Hale) Merrill, and fourth in descent from 
Nathaniel Merrill, the emigrant. He married, June i, 1773, 
Sarah, daughter of Moses and Lydia (Emery) Emery. 

He served in the minute-men sent from Newbury on the 
Lexington alarm as corporal in Capt. William Rogers' 
company, Col. Gerrish's regiment, for seven days. 
He afterwards removed his family for safety to Pelham, 
New Hampshire, and enlisted there as corporal in Capt. 
David Quinby's company. Col. Josiah Bartlett's regi- 
ment (Col. Wingate's), July, 1776. Again in Lieut. Isaac 
Cochran's (Capt. Amos Gage's) company, Moor's regi- 
ment, which marched from Pelham to join the Northern 
Army, and was present at the battle of Saratoga and Bur- 



46 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

goyne's surrender, October 17, 1777; and again in Capt. 
Benjamin Whittier's company, Col. Jacob Gale's regi- 
ment, August 5-28, 1778. 

After the war he removed his family to Bethel, Maine, 
and in 1789 to the township of Andover, Maine, where he 
was the first settler, and lived for two years in the wilder- 
ness with his family, subsisting on the produce of the 
chase and by trafficking for furs with the Indians, to whom 
he sold his continental uniform for a large amount. He 
afterwards built the first frame house in Andover, which 
is still standing and bears his name. It is in the possession 
of his grandson, Henry Varnum Poor. He was a man of 
genial character and generally beloved and respected. His 
children were (i) Roger, whose descendents for three gen- 
erations have been officers in the regular army ; (2) Moses ; 
(3) Sarah, married Peregrine Bartlett ; (4) Anne Moody, 
married Samuel Poor ; (5) Mary, married Dr. Silvanus 
Poor ; (6) Ezekiel ; (7) Lydia, married Isaac Winslow 
Talbot; (8) Susan, married Nathan Adams. All have 
descendants living. 

His daughter, Mary Merrill, married Dr. Silvanus Poor, 
and had (i) Silvanus Poor, who married Eliza Fox 
Brown, and was father of Mary Susanna Poor, who 
married George William Fox ; and (2) Henry Varnum 
Poor, who married Mary Wild Pierce, and was father of 
Agnes Blake Poor and Lucy Tappan Poor. 

II. 

John Varnum, born February 5, 1705, at Dracut, died 
at same place July 26, 1785 ; son of John Varnum, and 
grandson of George Varnum the emigrant. His mother was 
Dorothy, daughter of Jonas and Mary (Loker) Prescott, 



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WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 47 

and cousin of Col. William Prescott. He married, July 
155 1730, Pliebe, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Frye) 
Parker. 

He was a noble specimen of the old New England stock, 
fulfilling every public duty, and never wavering through- 
out the darkest days of the Revolution in his patriotic 
fervor. During his long career as Justice of the Peace he 
would never return a fugitive slave to his master, nor 
would he ever take a fee for assisting in the cause of one, 
declaring that "slavery was contrary to the law of God, 
the law of nature, of humanity, and Christianity," and 
that " a land of freedom knew no slavery." 

When just twenty-one he was with the famous Captain 
Lovell in his successful skirmish with the Indians on 
February 20, 1725, returning from which, hungry and 
weary, they were entertained at Andover by Joseph 
Parker, where John Varnum first saw Phebe Parker, then 
but thirteen, who five years later became his wife. They 
lived together for fifty-four years, and died but six months 
apart. John, their eldest son, attained the rank of lieuten- 
ant in the French and Indian Wars, and died at Crown 
Point when but one and twenty. James, their third son, 
served actively and gallantly in the Revolutionary Army 
for four years, rising from private to captain. Jonas, 
their fourth son, fought at Bunker Hill. John Varnum 
gave abundantly of his means to aid the American cause, 
and is included in the list of original lenders to the Revo- 
lutionary Government, who showed their faith in its 
future triumph by accepting its bonds in payment. 

His children were, (i) Phebe, married Benjamin Poor ; 
(2) Lydia ; (3) Susanna, married Ebenezer Poor ; (4) Han- 



48 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

nah, married Benjamin Stevens; (5) John; (6) Dorothy, 
married Peter Coburn ; (7) Sarah ; (8) Sarah ; (9) Dorcas ; 
(10) Parker; (11) James; (12) Peter ; (13) Jonas. Of these, 
Phebe, Susanna, Hannah, Dorothy, Parker, James and 
Jonas are known to have left descendants. His daughter 
Susanna married Ebenezer Poor and had Silvanus Poor, 
who married Mary Merrill. 

Mrs. Wales French, (2,332,) descends from 

Deborah Sampson, born December 17, 1760, at Plympton, 
died April 29, 1827, at Sharon ; daughter of Jonathan and 
Deborah (Bradford) Sampson, and great grand-daughter 
of Governor William Bradford. She married Benjamin 
Gannett. 

She enlisted under the name of Robert Shurtleff in Capt. 
Webb's company, in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment 
(Col. William Shepard's), May 21, 1782, and performed 
the duties of a soldier till October 23, 1783, when she was 
discharged. She was wounded in a skirmish near Tarry- 
town. She afterwards received a pension, which was con- 
tinued to her husband, a special act of Congress being 
passed to put him on the footing of a soldier's widow. 

Her son, Earl Bradford Gannett, married Mary Clark, 
and had Rhoda Gannett, who married Elijah Wadsworth 
Monk, and was mother of Abbie Frances Monk, who 
married Wales French. 

Mrs. William Lawrence Frost. (See Bigelow). 

tMrs. Thomas B. Frothingham, (1,454,) descends from 
Henry Lunt, born 1755, at Newburyport, died there 1805 ; 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 49 

son of Matthew Lunt and great-great-grandson of Henry 
Lunt the emigrant. He married Sarah Orcutt. 

In the autumn of 1776 he embarked on the privateer 
Dalton, commanded by Capt. Eleazer Johnson. In De- 
cember this ship was captured by a British man-of-war, and 
her officers and crew thrown into " Mill Prison," where he 
suffered greatly for more than two years. The peculiar 
rigor of his treatment was in consequence of two attempts 
to escape which he made. On one of these occasions he 
received, in trying to force himself through the grating of 
the prison sewer, a severe wound in the thigh ; being 
caught he was placed in the *' Black Hole," where his 
neglected wound caused him great agony. His release 
was finally obtained by a cartel negotiated by Benjamin 
Franklin, then in France. Thither he repaired on obtain- 
ing liberty, in the spring of 1779, and soon after entered 
the ship Bon Homme Richard, then fitting out at L'Orient, 
under command of John Paul Jones, as midshipman, but 
was speedily raised to rank of second lieutenant, and 
served in that capacity under Commodore Jones in all his 
cruises in the ship ; and later in the Alliance, and in the 
Ariel. After the capture of the Serapis by the Bon 
Homme Richard, he was placed in command of the prize, 
and on this occasion he received high praise from Com- 
modore Jones, who remarked that " he should prefer him 
as officer in the service to any he had ever known." From 
the burning Bon Homme Richard he saved a brass candle- 
stick, now in possession of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society, with inscription to that effect. 

On the passage of the Ariel from France to Philadel- 
phia, where she arrived in February, 1781, she had a severe 



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engagement with a British ship of superior force, and here 
again the young officer received the highest praise from his 
commander. After an unbroken service of four years and 
seven months he enlisted again in the Intrepid, a letter-of- 
marque ship, and served one year and a half, after which 
he returned to Newburyport and made some twenty-five 
voyages as commander of merchant vessels. 

His son, Henry Lunt, married Mary Green Pearson, and 
had William Parsons Lunt, who married Ellen Hobart, 
and was father of Anne Pearson Lunt, who married 
Thomas B. Frothingham. 

Mrs. Thomas Goddard Frothingham, (7,447,) descends 
from 

L 
Ephraim Cook (see Butterfield). 

n. 

Benjamin Gage, born August 10, 1740, at Pelham, New 
Hampshire, died December 15, 1820, son of Josiah Gage. 
He married, at Pelham, Sarah, daughter of Capt. William 
and Elizabeth (Coburn) Richardson. 

He served as private in Capt. Amos Gage's company, 
which marched September 29, 1777, to join the Northern 
Army at Saratoga. 

His daughter, Anna Gage, married Silas Morse, and was 
father of Elizabeth Morse, who married Isaac Cook. 

Miss Mary Goddard Fuller, (10,052,) ) ^ 

...../ ^ r descend from 

Mrs. Horace MacMurtrie, (3,970,) ) 

I. 

Benjamin Gould, born May 15, 1751, at Topsfield, died 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 51 

May 13, 1841, at Newburyport, son of John and Esther 
(Giles) Gould. He married Grizzell Apthorp Flagg. 

He was ensign of the Topsfield company, 1773, and 
wounded in the battle of Lexington ; was lieutenant in the 
rear guard at the battle of Bunker Hill. He went to New 
York in Colonel Knox's artillery regiment; commanded a 
detachment at the battle of White Plains ; was captain in 
the battles of Bennington, Stillwater, and Saratoga ; and 
in Colonel Wade's Continental regiment to reinforce 
West Point in 1780. Was present at Burgoyne's sur- 
render ; captain of the guards, and took a prominent part 
in the discovery of Arnold's treachery ; ordered to guard 
Major Andre. Served honorably to close of war. 

His son, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, married Lucretia 
Dana Goddard, and was father of Louisa Gould, who 
married Horace MacMurtrie ; and his daughter, Esther 
Gould, married Henry (Habijah) Weld Fuller, and had 
Henry Weld Fuller, who married Mary Storer Goddard, 
and was father of Mary Goddard Fuller. 

iL 

John Goddard (see Fitz). 

111. 

Amariah Dana (see Fitz). 

Mrs. Charles H. Gibson, (1755). (See Appleton). 

Mrs. George Fuller Gill, (21,038,) ) , 

^. . ^,.x ... , V ^ descend from 
Mrs. Charles O'Neil, (2,062,) ) 

L 

Richard Frothingham, born March 15 (19), 1748, at 
Charlestown, died there April i, 1817, son of Nathaniel 



52 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

and Mary (Whittemore) Frothingham. He married Mary, 
daughter of James and Sarah (Call) Kettell. 

He was sergeant in Captain Chadwick's company in 
1775 ; then sergeant-major in Col. Henry Knox's regiment 
of artillery ; conductor of military stores ; deputy-com- 
missary of military stores, and principal field-commissary 
of military stores of the American Army, which last station 
he sustained till the close of the war. He held rank of 
captain and major ; (see his memorial to Congress, dated 
January i, 1818, asking that he be granted "commutation 
on land as was granted to officers of the same grade in 
line.") In this petition he refers to a certificate of Major 
General Henry Knox, under date of West Point, Novem- 
ber, 1783 ; also a letter of the General dated August 8, 
1783, to General Lincoln, Secretary of War, in which he 
is spoken of in the highest terms. The petition was re- 
ferred, January 9, i8i8,to the Committee on Pensions and 
Revolutionary Claims of Fifteenth Congress, where it 
rested. His portrait, by James Frothingham, and all the 
documents referred to in this statement, are in the posses- 
sion of his great-grandson, Richard Frothingham (S. A. R. 
7,201). 

His children were (i) Richard ; (2) Nathaniel ; (3) James 
Kettell ; (4) Isaac Call ; (5) John ; (6) Nathaniel ; (7) Mary, 
married Thomas B. Wyman ; (8) Sarah, married Benjamin 
Phipps. Richard, Isaac Call, Mary, and Sarah left de- 
scendants. 

His son, Richard Frothingham, married Mary Thomp- 
son, and had Richard Frothingham (author of the " Siege 
of Boston "), who married Vrylena Blanchard, and was 
father of Mary C. Frothingham, who married Charles 



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WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 53 

O'Neil, and Matilda Frothingham, who married (i) Henry 
C. Adams, (2) George Fuller Gill. 

II. 

Timothy Thompson, born June 10, 1759, at Woburn, 
died February 4, 1834, at Charlestown, son of Jabez and 
Lydia (Snow) Thompson. He married, January 23, 1775, 
Mary, daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Rand) Frothing- 
ham. He was sergeant in Capt. Josiah Harris' com- 
pany, Col. Thomas Gardner's regiment, which fought in 
the battle of Bunker Hill, near the " Rail Fence." He 
assisted in carrying Colonel Gardner, who was mortally 
wounded near the top of the hill, from Charlestown. 

His children were (i) Joseph ; (2) Timothy ; (3) Samuel ; 
(4) Abraham Rand ; (5) Joseph ; (6) Mary, married Richard 
Frothingham ; (7) Lydia ; (8) Susanna ; (9) Susanna, mar- 
ried William Sawyer; (10) Thomas Miller; (11) George, 
(12) Benjamin. Timothy, Samuel, Abraham Rand, Joseph, 
Mary, Susanna, Thomas Miller, and Benjamin left de- 
scendants. His daughter, Mary Thompson, married Rich- 
ard Frothingham. 

Mrs. Francis B. Greene, (15,689) descends from 

I. 

Jeremiah Page, born 1722, at Danvers, died June 6, 
1806. He married Sarah Andrews. 

He was commissioned captain, March, 1773, in Col. 
William Brown's Essex regiment, resigned October 4, 
1774. Commissioned captain November 7, 1774, in Com- 
yany 3, First Essex regiment. On duty in camp at 
Cambridge and Roxbury, December, 1775 ; commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel Eighth Essex regiment, February 8, 



54 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

1776. He was lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Coggswell's 
regiment, General Farley's brigade, which was drafted for 
the relief of New York, September, 1776, and ordered to 
Horse Neck ; was in the battle of White Plains, October 
18, 1776 ; resigned October 9, 1777. He was a member of 
the Boston Tea-party, December 16, 1773 ; also present at 
the battle of Bunker Hill. 

II. 

His son, Samuel Greene Page, born August i, 1753, at 
Danvers, died there September 2, 1814 ; married Rebecca 
Putnam, niece of Israel Putnam, Senior Major-General of 
the American Army. 

He was a private soldier at Lexington, joined the army 
under Washington at Cambridge, and was commissioned 
captain in Colonel Tappan's regiment. Was engaged in 
the battles of Monmouth and Stony Point. Was with 
Washington at the crossing of the Delaware, and at 
Valley Forge. 

His daughter, Nancy Page, married John Hancock An- 
drews, and had Rebecca Putnam Andrews, who married 
Charles Allen Browne, and was mother of Rebecca An- 
drews Browne, who married Francis B. Greene. 

Mrs. Henry Sturgis Grew, (2,344.) (See Fitz.) 

Mrs. Charles E. Grinnell, (5,924,) descends from 
Job Pierce, born November 29, 1737, at Middleborough, 
died there July 27, 1819, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Hos- 
kins) Pierce, and great-great grandson of Abraham Pierce 
the emigrant. His father was a captain in the French and 
Indian Wars. He married Elizabeth Rounseville. 



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WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 5§ 

He served as private in the local militia of Middlebor- 
ough, sent to reinforce Fort William Henry in 1757; en- 
listed in the army April, 1758-April, 1759, and March, 
1762 ; receiving honorable and final discharge from mili- 
tary service under the King, March, 1763. 

He served as private in a company of middlemen com- 
manded by his brother, Capt. Abiel Pierce, April 19-20, 
1775 ; was commissioned second-lieutenant in the Conti- 
nental Army in 1766, in Capt. Nathaniel Wood's com- 
pany, Col. Simeon Carey's regiment. Appointed captain 
Fourth Company local militia in Middleborough, May 9, 
1776. He was captain in Col. Theophilus Cotton's regi- 
ment on the secret expedition to Rhode Island, 1777. He 
was also in the field to resist the British troops in their 
attempt to burn Fairhaven, September 17, 1778. 

His daughter, Elizabeth Pierce, married Capt. Abiel 
Washburn, and had William Rounseville Pierce Wash- 
burn, who married Sarah Ellen Tucker, and was father of 
Elizabeth Washburn, who married Charles E. Grinnell. 

t Mrs. Frederick W. Groby, (2,735») died 1898, descends 

from 

Bezaleel Howe, born 1750, at Marlborough, died Septem- 
ber 3, 1825, at New York city. He married Catherine 
Moffat. 

He removed, when young, to Hillsborough, N. H., 
where he enlisted in the Continental Army as private, and 
rose successively to the ranks of lieutenant, captain, and 
major. During the last six months of the war he acted as 
commandant of the guards of the Commander-in-Chief, 
and lived as a member of General Washington's family, 



56 WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 

and the pleasant relations then established continued 
through the General's life. The family possess autograph 
letters to him from Washington, and other documents of 
interest, deposited for safe-keeping with the New Jersey 
Historical Society at Newark. He was one of the original 
members of " The Cincinnati," and the honor has de- 
scended to his grandson, George Bezaleel Howe, of New 
York. 

His son, George Cooper Howe, married Hester Anne 
Higgins, and had Josephine Eliza Howe, who married 
Eber Whitman, and was mother of Clara Whitman, who 
married Frederick W. Groby. 

Mrs. Curtis Guild, (1,455,) descends from 
David Cobb, born September, 14, 1748, at Attleborough, 
died April 17, 1830, at Boston, son of Capt. Thomas Cobb, 
a colonial officer, and Lydia, daughter of Capt. James 
Leonard, also a colonial officer. He married in 1761, 
Eleanor Bradish. 

He was a graduate of Harvard University, 1766 ; Secre- 
tary of the Bristol County Convention in 1774, a member 
of the General Court convened in October, 1774, where 
he was the colleague of his brother-in-law, Robert Treat 
Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 
1774, they, with other members of the Committee of 
Safety, raised the historic Taunton flag on Taunton 
Green. On this was inscribed "Liberty and Union." 
This was the first Union flag raised in the country. Early 
in 1777 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in Henry 
Jackson's regiment, the sixteenth. Here he encountered 
Quaker Hill, Rhode Island. At Quaker Hill he led a forlorn 



WARREN-PRESCOTT LINEAGE. 57 

Quaker Hill, Rhode Island. At Quaker Hill he led a forlorn 
hope to delay, with twenty men, the progress of the Hessian 
Cavalry. His activity, talent, and high military qualities 
attracted the attention of Washington, who appointed him 
one of his aids on June 15, 1781. In this capacity he par- 
ticipated in the capture of Cornwallis. He was included 
by Trumbull in the painting of the surrender of Corn- 
wallis which hangs in one of the rooms at Mount Vernon. 
He was lieutenant-colonel commanding the Fifth regiment, 
and brigadier-general by brevet. 

After the'.close of the war, Col. Cobb passed consider- 
able time at Mount Vernon. On one occasion when Gen. 
Washington and Col. Cobb were sitting in the library 
the General said he felt great anxiety about the prospects 
of the people of Massachusetts. " The climate is cold and 
trying, the soil sterile and unproductive, and the best crop 
would be stones. We in Virginia have a salubrious cli- 
mate, and a soil as rich and productive as the sun ever 
shone upon. I am very anxious about Massachusetts." 
" Have no anxiety about Massachusetts," replied Col. 
Cobb. " Sir, we have our heads and our hands." 

Returning home in 1784 he resumed his profession of 
physician, but was very soon appointed Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas, where he continued twelve 
years. He was major-general of the Fifth division 
Massachusetts Militia, 1786-93. During Shay's Rebel- 
lion, in 1786, when lawless bands threatened the courts. 
Judge Cobb was the man for the times. While Central 
and Western Massachusetts required an army to bring 
them to order, Bristol County took care of itself. We can 
imagine the scene, a quiet autumn day, the old Taunton 



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Court House at the edge of the Green, the disorderly mob, 
the half-insolent, half-frightened envoys asking the stern- 
faced judge to adjourn the September term of the Court, 
and then the resolute answer, full of the spirit of the days 
when gentlemen were ready to die for honor, " Away with 
your whining. I will hold this court if I hold it in blood. 
I will sit as judge or die as general." With this the mob 
dispersed, muttering and criticising, but it does disperse. 

He was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts in 1809, 
one of the Board of Military Defence in 1812. He was 
Vice-President of the Society of the Cincinnati, 1810. 

His children were (i) Eleanor, married James Hodges; 
(2) Betsey, married Ebenezer Smith ; (3) Thomas ; (4) 
Gray, killed in battle with Indians ; (5) Eunice, married 
Judge S. Sumner Wilde; (6) Mary, married Col. John 
Black; (7) David, killed by Indians; (8) Sally, married 
Ebenezer Bradish ; (9) Henry Jackson ; (lo) George 
Washington, who, after the death of his brother David, 
prefixed David to his name. 

David George Washington Cobb, married Abby 
Crocker, and was father of Sarah Crocker Cobb, who 
married Curtis Guild. 

Miss Mariana C. Guild, (8,786,) descends from 
Ezra Hodges, born 1762 at Norton, died 1851, at Vassal- 
boro'. He married Mehitable Pollard. 

He served as corporal August 5-September 3, 1778, in 
Capt. Josiah Keith's company. Col. John Daggett's 
regiment, in Rhode Island. Again he enlisted for three 
years, or during war, in Capt. Sylvanus Smith's company, 
Col. Rufus Putnam's Fifth Continental regiment. 



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Again in Capt. John Shaw's company, Col. Jacob Ger- 
rish's regiment at Cambridge, October-December 1778. 

His daughter, Charlotte Louisa Hodges, married Curtis 
Guild, and was mother of Mariana C. Guild. 

Mrs. Ephraim Gaylord Hull, (4,544)- (See Curtis.) 

tMrs. George S. Hall, (7,495,) ) ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ 

Mrs. Andrew Pearson, (7,496,) ) 

I. 

Sylvanus Blanchard, born April 11, 1738 at Maiden, 
died there August 5, 1800. He married Sarah Grover. 

He was a private in Capt. Benjamin Blaney's company, 
Col. Eleazer Brooks regiment of guards serving at Cam- 
bridge, January 12-April 3, 1778. 

His son, Capt. Caleb Blanchard, married Lucy Hill, and 
had Hannah Blanchard, who married Christopher Solis, 
and was mother of Harriette Solis, who married George S. 
Hall, and Margaret G. Solis, who married Andrew Pear- 
son. 

II. 

John Hill, born January i, 1738-9, died June 26, 1798, of 
Menotomy. He married Dorcas, daughter Rev. Nicholas 
and Lucy (Hancock) Bowes, a cousin of Gov. John Han- 
cock. He was a private in Capt. John Walton's company 
of Militia, detached for Noddle's Island, December 9-27, 
1776. His daughter, Lucy Hill, married Caleb Blanchard. 

tMrs Alfred Hemenway, (6,803,) died 1896, descends 
from 
Jedidiah Phips, born March 11, 1724, at Sherborn, died 



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there 1818, son of John and Hannah (BuUen) Phips. He 
married Sarah Learned, whose father was an ensign in the 
Revolutionary Army. He was grandson of John Phips, 
nephew and adopted son of Sir William Phips, Governor 
of Massachusetts in 1692. 

He served on the Committee of Correspondence, 1774-5, 
in the County Convocation held at Concord, 1779. Com- 
mittee of Safety, 1780, and as private in Capt. Morse's 
company. Col. Putnam's regiment, April i, 1777-April i, 
1780. He was also of great service to the army in the early 
days of the war, when it was almost without ammunition, 
by manufacturing saltpetre for its use. 

His daughter, Sarah Phips, married Henry Leland, and 
had Keziah Leland, who married Samuel MacLanathan, 
and was father of Myra Leland MacLanathan, who mar- 
ried Alfred Hemenway. 



tMrs. Elisha Martin Hess, (6,436,) , ^ . . 

descend from 



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Mrs. Charles Edwin Jenkins, (5,765, 

John Spering,born 1755, at Bath, England, died Septem- 
ber 17, 1846, at Philadelphia, Penn. He married Sarah 
Clackner. 

He entered the Continental Army at the age of twenty, 
and served in it till the close of the War. He was at most 
of the principal battles : Brandywine, Germantown, Mon- 
mouth, and was only prevented by illness from participat- 
ing in the triumph of Yorktown. He followed Washing- 
ton across the Delaware, and shared the sufferings of 
Valley Forge. In all these circumstances he honorably ac- 
quitted himself. He lived to a great age, retaining his 
faculties to the last. Up to the morning of his death he 



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was accustomed to peruse with keen interest accounts 
from tlie seat of war in Mexico. It was his frequent and 
fervent wish that if he should live to see his country again 
endangered he might behold all his numerous male descend- 
ants together in arms for her defence. It was almost with 
this wish on his lips that he expired. 

All his fellow-soldiers who served in his regiment had 
gone before him. With his death the last link that united 
that portion of the Pennsylvania line to the present was 
broken forever. He was buried at Laurel Hill, with full 
military ceremonies. 

His daughter, Angeline Spering, married (i) Allen Smith, 
and (2) Elisha Martin Hess ; and was mother, by her first 
marriage, of Emeline Smith, who married Charles Edwin 
Jenkins. 

Miss Grace Greenleaf Hiler (1,201,) descends from 

I. 

Jacob Hiler, born November, 1755, at Boston, died 
there August 13, 1835 ; son of Jacob Hiler of Brunswick, 
Germany, and Mary Paine. He married, August 5, 1780, 
Grace, daughter of Thomas and Mehitable (Crowell 
(Harris) Greenleaf. 

He served as carpenter on the sloop Machias Liberty? 
commanded by Jeremiah O'Brien, from February i, 1776 
to October 15, 1776, On a list of men entitled to prize 
shares on the U. S. brig General Gates, he appears with 
rank of Master-at-Arms as entitled to one and three- 
eighths shares. He also served with rank of Matross in 
Capt. Philip Maretti's company. Col. Thomas Craft's 
Artillery regiment, from December i, 1776, to May 8, 1777. 



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When the Revolution broke out, Jacob Hiler was oc- 
cupying a large wooden house on the corner of Unity and 
Tileston streets, which remained standing until 1859. At 
the time of the arrival of the British fleet in the harbor, and 
when they were about to fire upon Charlestown, a dozen or 
more of the '* North Enders " held a secret meeting in 
this dwelling, and organized a corps of minute-men called 
the "Unity Club." They at once prepared themselves 
with a cannon and ammunition to defend the citizens 
against the attack from the British fleet, and when it cast 
anchor off Charlestown old bridge, they hauled their can- 
non through Unity Lane up Charter street, and planted 
the same on the heights of Copp's Hill. At sunrise a 
salutation was given to the red coats in the shape of a 
heavy discharge of grape shot, which struck terror into 
those on the deck of a British sloop-of-war. An increasing 
fire was kept up from the fleet toward the liberty men on 
Copp's Hill for several hours, but without doing any 
injury to any member of the club. The men fought 
bravely, and were instrumental in saving Copp's Hill 
from falling into the hands of the enemy. 

Jacob Hiler, after the war, was in business as a mast 
and spar builder. He was deacon of the Baldwin Street 
Baptist Church. His children were (i) Mehitable, married 
Benjamin Hathorne ; (2) Jacob ; (3) Simeon; (4) William 
Harris ; (5) Sally ; (6) Nathaniel ; (7) Thomas Gier ; (8) 
Stephen Greenleaf ; (9) Thomas Greenleaf ; (10) Mary 
Casneau, married Nicholson Proctor; (11) Grace, married 
Luke Fay; (12) Jane Rolston, married Manasseh Knight, 
Mehitable, William Harris, Thomas Greenleaf, left de- 
scendants. 



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His son, Thomas Creenleaf Hiler, married Pamelia 
Osgood, and iiad Thomas Greenleaf Hiler, who married 
Mary Jane Clark, and was father of Grace Greenleaf 
Hiler. 

II. 

John Osgood, born July 17, 1712, at Andover, son of 
John and Hannah (Abbot) Osgood. He married (i) 
Martha Carleton ; (2) June 9, 1760, Huldah Frye. 

He was colonel of the Essex County regiment, com- 
posed of men from Andover. After the war he is known 
as a farmer, magistrate, and colonel of militia. His 
children were (i) Martha, married Gen. Enoch Poor; (2) 
Hannah ; (3) John ; (4) Dorcas, married (i) Isaac Marble ; 
(2) Gen. Henry Dearborn ; (5) Mary, married Isaac Farn- 
ham ; (6) Hannah, married (i) Simon Greenleaf ; (2) 
John Lee ; (7) Charlotte ; (8) John ; (9) Alfred ; (10) 
Enoch. 

His son (by second wife), John Osgood, married Sarah 
Porter, and had Pamelia Osgood, who married Thomas 
Greeenleaf Hiler. 

III. 

William Porter, born April 27, 1744, at Boxford, died 
July 26, 1822, at St. Johnsbury, Vermont ; son of Moses 
and Mary (Chadwick) Porter. He married Mary, daugh' 
ter of Isaac and Nancy (Wood) Adams. 

He served for four days in Capt. John Cushing's com- 
pany. Col. Samuel Johnson's regiment, which marched 
from Boxford on the Lexington alarm. After the war he 
was a farmer. 

His children were (i) Hannah, married Zachariah 
Bacon ; (2) William ; (3) James ; (4) Aaron ; (5) Mary, 



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married Amos Carleton ; (6) Sarah, married John Os- 
good ; {7) Isaac; (8) Betsey; (9) Pamela, married Luther 
Clark. 

His daughter, Sarah Porter, married John Osgood. 

IV. 

John Pray, born March 4, 1755, at Braintree, now 
Quincy, died there February 6, 1846 ; son of Ephraim and 
Ann (Hayden) Pray. He married (i) before 1779, Mary> 
daughter of Joseph Cleverly, mother of all his children ; 

(2) Mrs. Elizabeth White. 

He served as private in Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s, com- 
pany, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regiment, which marched 
on the Lexington alarm ; again, as corporal in Capt. 
John Langdon's company, Col. Henry Jackson's regi- 
ment, from May 31 — September 3, 1778; again, as cor- 
poral in Capt. Thomas H. Condy's company. Col. Henry 
Jackson's regiment, October 31, 1778 — March i, 1779. 

Family tradition relates that on his discharge he was 
paid off in Continental money. He stopped into the Bite 
Tavern (Bite of Lorgan) for breakfast. Such was the de- 
preciation of the currency that it took nearly all his money 
to pay for it. He then walked to his home in Quincy, 
where he took up his trade of shoemaking, which he had 
learned as an apprentice with Joseph Cleverly, afterward 
his father-in-law. In 1790 he opened a shoe store in 
Boston. 

His children were, (i) George Washington ; (2) John ; 

(3) George ; (4) Ebenezer ; (5) Ann, married Noah Curtis ; 
(6) James ; (7) Josiah ; (8) Peter ; (9) Lewis Glover ; (10) 
Mary, married Micajah Newell Adams; (11) William. 
John, George, Ann, Mary, left descendants. 



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His son, John Pray, married Delia Hayden, and had 
Harriet Pray, who married (2) Jonathan Bailey Clark, 
and had Mary Jane Clark, who married Thomas Green- 
leaf Hiler. 

Miss Sarah Huntington Hooker, (4,327,) descends from 

I. 

Timothy Edwards, born July 25, 1738, at Northampton, 
died October 28, 1813, at Stockbridge ; son of Jonathan 
and Sarah (Pierrepont) Edwards. He married, September, 
1760, at Elizabethtown, N. J., Rhoda, daughter of Robert 
and Phebe (Hatfield) Ogden. 

He graduated at Princeton College. From 1775 to 1783 
he devoted his time almost exclusively to serving his 
country as a member of the Massachusetts State Legis- 
lature, as a commissioner " to the Indians on our western 
border, if possible to keep them at peace with us," and 
Commissary to the Revolutionary Army. In 1777 he was 
elected a member of the Continental Congress, but the 
danger of General Burgoyne's army overrunning the 
country where he and his family lived made it his duty to 
remain at home, and prevented his taking his seat. 

His children were, (i) Edward; (2) Jonathan ; (3) Rich- 
ard ; (4) Sarah, married (i) Benjamin Chaplin ; (2) Capt. 
Daniel Tyler ; (5) Phebe, married (i) Rev. Asahel Hooker ; 
(2) Samuel Farrar ; (6) Rhoda, married Josiah Dwight ; (7) 
Elizabeth Mary, married Mason Whiting ; (8) Anna, mar- 
ried Williams; (9) William; (10) Timothy; (11) 

Robert Burr. 

His daughter, Phebe Edwards, married Rev. Asahel 
Hooker, and had Edward William Hooker, who married 



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Faith Trumbull Huntington, and was father of Sarah 
Huntington Hooker. 

II. 

Robert Ogden, born October 7, 1716, at Elizabethtown, 
N. J., died there Jan. 21, 1789 ; son of Robert and Hannah 
(Crane) Ogden. He married Phebe Hatfield. 

He held many civil and military positions before and 
during the Revolution ; was recorder of the borough of 
Elizabethtown ; elected to the eighteenth Provincial As- 
sembly and to the twentieth, vhere he served as Speaker 
till he resigned in 1765. In 1753 Governor Belcher ap- 
pointed him a Surrogate and clerk in Chancery. From 
1757 to 1773 he was commissary and barrack master for 
the King's troops ; and various other positions. 

He was Speaker of the Assembly when the Stamp Act 
was passed, and at once took a patriotic stand against it. 
As a delegate from New Jersey he was at the first Con- 
gress of the American colonies at New York, October 7, 
1765. After the battle of Lexington he was a member of 
the Elizabethtown Committee of Correspondence and 
Safety. 

His children were, (i) Matthias, who served through the 
war, rising to the rank of brigadier general ; (2) Aaron, 
who served through the war, rising to the rank of major ; 
(3) Rhoda, married Timothy Edwards ; (4, 5) daughters, 
who married Col. Oliver Spencer and Major Francis 
Barber, officers in New Jersey regiments. 

His daughter, Rhoda Ogden, married Timothy Edwards. 

III. 

Jabez Huntington, born August 7, 1719, at Norwich, 
Conn., died there October 5, 1786, son of Joshua and 



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Hannah (Perkins) Huntington. He married, (i) January 
20, 1741, Elizabetli, daugliter of Rev. Samuel and Eliza- 
beth (Tracey) Backus ; (2) Hannah Williams. 

He graduated at Yale College in 1741, and was elected, 
in 1750, a member of the General Assembly of Connecti- 
cut. He early entered into the East India Trade and laid 
the foundations of an ample fortune, but at the beginning 
of the Revolutionary War cheerfully sacrificed his prop- 
erty, and consecrated himself and his family to the cause 
of Independence. He was one of the most active of the 
Committee of Safety during the war, and in September, 
1776, was appointed one of the two major-generals from 
Connecticut. In 1777, on the death of General Wooster, 
he was appointed major-general over the whole Connecti- 
cut militia. 

His children were, (i) Jedidiah ; (2) Andrew, during the 
war a commissary of brigade ; (3) Joshua ; (4) Hannah ; 
(5) Ebenezer, who became general in the army ; (6) Eliza- 
beth, married Col. John Chester, Revolutionary Army; 
(7) Mary, married Rev. Joseph Strong, D.D. ; (8) Zacha- 
riah, who attained the rank of major-general in the army. 

IV. 

His son, Jedediah Huntington, born August 4, 1743, at 
Norwich, Conn., died April 7, 1824, at New London, 
Conn., married (i) May, 1766, Faith, daughter of Jona- 
than Trumbull ; (2) Ann, daughter of Thomas Moore. 

He graduated at Harvard College in 1765. With the 
approach of the struggle for Independence he became noted 
as a " Son of Liberty " and an active captain of the 
militia. Promoted to the command of a regiment, he joined 
the army at Cambridge a week after the battle of Lexing- 



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ton. His regiment was at Dorctiester Heiglits, and after 
the evacuation of Boston by the British, marched with the 
army to New York. He entertained Washington on the 
way at his home in Norwich. During 1776 he was at 
New York, Kingsbridge, and other places. In May, 1775, 
he was promoted to the rank of brigadier. In July he 
joined General Putnam at Peekskill with all the Conti- 
nental troops he could collect, whence, in September, he 
was ordered to join the main army near Philadelphia. He 
shared in the hardships of Valley Forge, and in March, 
1778, was appointed (together with Colonel Wigglesworth,) 
by Washington to aid General McDougal into inquiring 
into the loss of Forts Montgomery and Clinton. In May 
his brigade was stationed at posts on the North River, 
West Point and others. In July he was appointed a mem- 
ber of the Court Martial on General Lee ; in September he 
was on the Court of Inquiry on the case of Major Andre. 
May 10, 1783, he was one of the committee of four who 
drafted the constitution of the " Society of the Cincin- 
nati." At the close of the war he was breveted major- 
general. A letter from General Washington to him, on 
his resignation, expressing the highest praise, is preserved 
by his family. 

After the war he was chosen sheriff of the county, 
treasurer of the state, and delegate to the state convention 
which adopted the Constitution of the United States. In 
1789 he was appointed by President Washington collector 
of customs at New London, which office he retained under 
four administrations, and resigned a short time before his 
death. 

His children were, (i) Jabez, graduated Yale College, 



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1784; (2) Elizabeth Moore; (3) Ann Channing, both mar- 
ried Peter Richards; (4) Faith Trumbull, married Benja- 
min Huntington ; (5) Harriet Smith, married John DeW itt ; 
(6) Joshua, Yale College, 1804 ; (7) Daniel, Yale College, 
1807; (8) Thomas. 

His son, by first wife, Jabez Huntington, married Mary 
Lanman, and had Faith Trumbull Huntington, married 
Rev. Edward William Hooker. 

Gen. Jabez Huntington's son — by his second wife,— 
Joshua Huntington, born August 16, 1751, at Norwich, 
Conn., married, December 11, 1771, Hannah, daughter of 
Hezekiah and Dorothy (Williams) Huntington. 

He led a hundred Norwich men to Lexington on the 
alarm ; they were annexed to General Putnam's brigade. 
He served through the war, and attained the rank of 
colonel. 

His daughter, Elizabeth Huntington, married Judge 
Frederick Wolcott. (See Parker). 

V. 

Jonathan Trumbull, born October 12, 1710, at Lebanon, 
Conn., died there August 17, 1785; son of Capt. Joseph 
and Hannah (Higley) Trumbull. He married, December 
i9» t755» Faith, daughter of Rev. John and Hannah 
(Wiswell) Robinson, and great-great-granddaughter of 
John Alden, the pilgrim. 

He graduated at Harvard College in 1727 ; received the 
degree of LL.D. from Yale College and from the Univer- 
sity of Edinburgh ; was Fellow of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences. He was Representative in the 
General Assembly of the Colony, 1733-39, when he was 



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chosen Speaker of the House. In 1766 he became Chief 
Judge of the Superior Court of the colony. Twice he was 
appointed Colonial Agent at the Court of Great Britain, 
but for family reasons declined. In 1769 he was chosen 
Governor of Connecticut, and remained so till his resig- 
nation, in 1783. In 1739, at the outbreak of the war with 
Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth 
regiment, but he did not take part in actual warfare. 

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he volun- 
tarily constituted himself the only rebel executive of the 
thirteen governors of the colonies, in defiance of a price 
set upon his head. His intimate friendship with Wash- 
ington led to the latter's so often saying, " We must con- 
sult Brother Jonathan," that the phrase was taken up by 
the soldiery, and passed from state to state till it was 
universally appropriated through the country at large ; 
and " Brother Jonathan " became a sobriquet, current to 
the present day, of the United States of America, as John 
Bull is for England. 

His children were, (i) Joseph, Commissary General 
of the American army; (2) Jonathan, Paymaster-General 
for the Northern army, private secretary to Washington, 
Speaker '"of the House of Representatives, Senator, and 
Governor of Connecticut, which office he held till his 
death ; (3) Faith, married Jedidiah Huntington ; (4) Mary, 
married William Williams, signer of the Declaration of 
Independence ; (5) David, Assistant Commissary for the 
armies; (6) John, Aide-de-Camp of Washington ; later, a 
■historical painter. 

His daughter, Faith Trumbull, married Gen. Jedidiah 
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VI. 

Samuel Coit, born 1708 at Plainfield, Conn., died Oc- 
tober 4, at Griswold, Conn., son of Rev. Joseph and 
Experience (Wheeler) Coit. He married, March 30, 1730, 
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Spalding. 

in military life he rose to the rank of colonel, and in 
1753 had command of a regiment raised in the neighbor- 
hood of Norwich, which wintered at Fort Edward. He 
represented Boston in the General Assembly for several 
years, and sat as judge on the bench of the County Court, 
and of a maritime court in the time of the Revolution. In 
1774 he was moderator of the town meeting on the " Bos- 
ton Port Bill," and was one of the Committee of Cor- 
respondence. 

His children were, (i) Benjamin ; (2) Oliver, captain in 
Revolutionary Army ; (3) Sarah, married Peter Lanman ; 
(4) Samuel ; (5) William ; (6) Wheeler ; (7) John ; (8) 
Joseph ; (9) Isaac ; (10) Olive, married Elisha Morgan. 

His daughter, Sarah Coit, married Peter Lanman, and 
was mother of Mary Lanman, who married Jabez Hunt- 
ington. 

Mrs. William Francis Humphrey, (1,562,) descends from 

I. 

Joseph Gilbert, born 1751, died 1777 near Peekskill on 
the Hudson, New York. He married Sarah Robbins. His 
descent is traced to the half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, 
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the distinguished English navi- 
gator, whose son, Raleigh Gilbert, of Compton Castle, 
had a son, Humphrey Gilbert, who came to America, and 
was living in Ipswich, Mass., in 1648. 



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Among the patriotic hearts stirred by the news of the 
battle of Lexington was one " Joseph Gilbert of Littletown, 
Mass., gentleman." Bidding an immediate farewell to 
his young wife and son of two years and baby girl, he 
joined his brother's (Capt. Samuel Gilbert's) company in 
the Seventh regiment of foot (Col. William Prescott's), 
and marched to the camp in Cambridge. Here he re- 
ceived his commission as first lieutenant, now in the 
possession of his descendants, from the " Congress of the 
Colony of Massachusetts Bay," dated May 17, i775) and 
signed by Gen. Joseph Warren, of whom scarcely another 
official autograph to a public document is in existence. A 
second commission from the " United Colonies " is dated 
January i, 1776, and signed by Gov. John Hancock. 
This regiment fought at Bunker's Hill, and was reviewed 
by General Washington on Cambridge Common, July 3, 
1775. On January i, 1776, it was paraded to receive the 
new flag of the Stars and Stripes. June 13 finds it at 
Governor's Island, New York harbor. At Throgg's Neck 
it defended a bridge, preventing the landing of General 
Howe. It was stationed near Peekskill on November 18. 
Lieut. Joseph Gilbert was reported among the officers on 
the sick list, and the trying winter of 1777 closed the brief 
but eventful career of a brave man. 

His son, John Gilbert, married Susannah Pollard, and 

had John Gilbert, who married Anne, daughter of Captain 

Burrows of Lockwood Gartle, Woodbridge, Eng., and was 

father of Ellen Lizette Gilbert, who married William 

Francis Humphrey. 

II. 

Benjamin Pollard of Billerica, nephew of Asa Pollard, 



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the first man killed while digging trenches at Bunker Hill, 
served with two of his brothers in the Revolutionary War. 
His daughter, Susannah Pollard, married John Gilbert. 

Mrs. James F. Hunnewell, (2,334). (See Farnsworth.) 

Mrs. Charles Jackson, (2,166,) descends from 

Jacob Buck, born July 27, 1752, at Haverhill, son of 
Ebenezer and Judith (Wood) Buck, and great-great- 
grandson of William Buck, the emigrant. He married 
Hannah Ames. 

He served from February i, 1777, to December 31, 1779, 
as private, afterward corporal, in the Ninth regiment 
(Colonel Wesson's). 

His son, Fisher Ames Buck, married Amy Creighton 
Batson, and was father of Adelaide Buck, who married 
Charles Jackson. 

Mrs. Charles Edwin Jenkins, (5,765). (See Hess.) 

Mrs. Edwin Austin Kilham, (2,733). (R. 1898) descends 
from 

I. 

Jonas Mason, born October 21, 1708, at Lexington, 
died March 13, 1801, at North Yarmouth, Me., son of 
John and Elizabeth (Spring) Mason. He married Mary 
Chandler. 

He was a leading man in town and church affairs 
through his long life. He was appointed by King George 
in. Justice of the Peace for York Co., 1752 ; for Cumber- 
land Co., 1760, and Justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas for the same county, 1764-5. In this position he 



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was outspoken in his denunciations of British encroach- 
ments, for he felt that the judges were servants of the 
people, not of the King. In 1775 the court met as usual, 
but no sheriff was present, no jury had been summoned, 
and no business was done ; but in 1776 it met again, and 
proceeded to business, the judges retaining their places 
under the new order of things. 

Judge Mason was for many years clerk of the proprietors 
of the town of North Yarmouth, to divide the unclaimed 
lands and to fix boundaries ; also a selectman and one of 
the founders of the First Church. He was highly honored 
and respected by his fellow-citizens. It was said of him 
that "few, if any, in those troublous times, came nearer 
keeping a conscience void of offence toward God and man 
than he." 

II. 

His son, Samuel Mason, married Sarah Beal. He was 
the first officer of customs in North Yarmouth, which 
office he held for thirty-six years ; first under King George 
III, then under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

His daughter, Elizabeth Mason, married Rev. Edwin 
Seabury, and was mother of Helen E. Seabury, who 
married Edwin Austin Kilham. 

Miss Susan Day Kimball, (17,607,) descends from 

I. 

Daniel Kimball, born 1735 at Bradford, died there 1802; 
son of Joseph and Abial (Peabody) Kimball, and great- 
great-grandson of Richard Kimball, the emigrant. He 
married, January 10, 1760, Sarah, daughter of Moses and 
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He was on a committee appointed by the town of Brad- 
ford, May 23, 1775, to supply the iVlassachusetts army 
with sundries ; was commissioned as first lieutenant 
Capt. Nathaniel Gage's company, Fourth Essex regiment 
(Col. Samuel Johnson's), April 23, 1776. He was first 
lieutenant Capt. Timothy Johnson's company (Col. Jona- 
than Coggswell's regiment). Gen. Farley's brigade, and 
was drafted from training band alarm list of Fourth Essex 
Co. regiment, and ordered to march to Horse Neck under 
resolve of September 12, 1776. He was on committee ap- 
pointed by his town, May 6, 1778, to hire men to fill up 
the ranks of Continental army ; and on a similar com- 
mittee appointed June 12, 1780. After the war he was 
captain Fourth company, Third regiment, Essex Co. 
Militia, and filled various town offices. 

His son, Daniel Kimball, married Hannah Parker, and 
had Moses Day Kimball, who married Susan Tillinghast 
Morton, and was father of Susan Day Kimball. 

II. 

Nathaniel Morton, born June i, 1753, at Freetown, died 
November 18, 1832, at Taunton, son of Nathaniel and 
Martha (Tupper) Morton. He married Mary Carey. 

He was Justice of the Peace for the government of 
Massachusetts Bay, May 3, 1776; sergeant on muster and 
pay roll of Lieut. Nathaniel Morton's company. Col. Ed- 
ward Pope's regiment, for service in Rhode Island on the 
alarm of December 8, 1776 ; member of the Committee of 
Inspection and Safety in Freetown, March 16, 1778, and 
again February, 1779 ; elected representative to Massachu- 
setts General Court September 26, 1778, and again Febru- 
ary 13, 1779; appointed muster master for Bristol Co. 



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November 27, 1780; private in Capt. Joseph Norton's 
company, Col. John Hathaway's regiment, for service in 
Rhode Island on alarm, August 2, 1781, for six days. 

His son, Gov. Marcus Morton, married Charlotte 
Hodges, and had Susan Tillinghast Morton, who married 
Moses Day Kimball. 

Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury, (4,324,) descends from 
William Henshaw, born September 20, 1735, at Boston, 
died February, 1820, at Leicester. He married Phebe 
Swan. 

He served for two years, from 1759, as lieutenant in 
General Ruggles' regiment in the expedition against 
Canada. In 1774 he was clerk of the fifteen grand jurors 
who refused to serve if Peter Oliver was to act as one of 
the judges. From June 17, 1774, to July 19, 1775, he was a 
member of the Provincial Congress, and clerk of one of 
the committees of correspondence of Worcester Co. In 
1775 he raised a regiment of minute-men in that county of 
which he was the colonel. Immediately, on hearing the 
alarm of April 19, he called it together at Worcester, and 
by ten o'clock that night they were there ready, with arms, 
ammunition, and one week's provision, and reached Cam- 
bridge the next forenoon. He served as Adjutant-General 
of the Massachusetts Army, June 27, July 3, 1775, till 
superseded by General Gates, and continued as assistant 
to the latter. At the close of the campaign he was about 
to retire but at the personal solicitation of General Wash- 
ington he accepted a lieutenant-colonel's commission under 
Colonel Little, and in April, 1776, marched to New York in 
General Greene's brigade. He was at the battle of Long 



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Island, White Plains, the passage of the Delaware, and 
attack on Princeton. He reluctantly left the service in 

1777, owing to the demands of a young family, but he 
never ceased to forward the cause of his country by every 
means in his power. 

His son, Daniel Henshaw, married Deborah Stark- 
weather, and was father of Frances Ellen Henshaw, who 
married Thomas Kingsbury. 

Mrs. Charles Greeley Loring, (10,054,) descends from 
Abel Brace, born 1740, at Hartford, Conn., died 1832, at 
Litchfield, N, Y., son of Capt. Henry Brace. He married 

Woodruff, and shortly after removed to Hartland. 

He was captain in the Eighteenth Connecticut Militia, 

1778, and also during the " New Haven Alarm " at the 
time of Tryon's invasion in 1779. He was repeatedly 
representative from Hartland to the Connecticut General 
Assembly. In his old age he removed, with most of his 
children, to Litchfield. 

He had fourteen children. His son, Thomas Brace, 
married Susan Pierce, and had Abel Brace, who married 
Betsy Doane, and had Susan Brace, who married John 
Hopkins and was mother of Mary Hopkins, who married 
Charles Greeley Loring. 

Mrs. Andrew J. Loud, (3,414,) descends from 
Joseph Lane, born September 8, 1745, at Rockport, died, 
1776, at Gloucester. He married Rachel Rowe. 

He served at the battle of Bunker Hill in Capt. John 
Row's company, Col. Ebenezer Bridge's regiment. Cap- 
tain Row was his wife's brother. He is again mentioned 
as receiving pay June 28, October 17, November 9, 1775, 



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in Captain Row's company, Twenty-Seventh Regiment of 
foot, from Cape Ann ; again in Capt. Barnabas Dodge's 
company, Gerrisli regiment, as corporal, January 29, 1776. 
His daughter. Deliverance Lane, married Joseph Smith, 
and had Benjamin Smith, who married Mary Oal^es 
Larry, and was father of Mary Oakes Smith, who mar- 
ried Andrew J. Loud. Mary Oakes Larry was grand- 
daughter of Urian Oakes, five of whose sons served in 
the Revolutionary War. 

Mrs. Augustus Lowell. (See Bigelow.) 
Miss Annie Lyman, 4,545.) (See Appleton.) 
Mrs. Horace MacMurtrie, (3,970.) (See Fitz.) 

Mrs. Frank Gair Macomber, (25,739,) descends from 
John McConnell, born 1749, died August 14, 1817, in 
Cumberland County, Penn. 

He was first lieutenant of Capt. James McConnell's 
company, Fifth Battalion, Cumberland Co. Association, 
commanded by Colonel Joseph Armstrong, December 8, 
1776. On July 31 he recruited, as captain, a company of 
his own, — Sixth Battalion, Ninth Company, Cumber- 
land Co. Militia, — from the Rocky Springs Presbyterian 
Church, Franklin Co., Penn. On May 21, 1778, he 
became captain Eighth Company, Sixth Battalion Cum- 
berland Co. Militia. His daughter, Elizabeth McCon- 
nell, married David Robertson, (who changed his name to 
Robison,) and had Joseph Robison, who married Isabella 
Ogden Reed, and was father of Clara Elizabeth Robison, 
who married Frank Gair Macomber. 



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Miss Annie Childs Merwin, (1,868,) descends from 

I. 
Dr. Timothy Cliilds, who commanded the Deerfield 
company of minute-men which responded to the Lexing- 
ton alarm. 

II. 

His son, Dr. Timothy Childs, born, 1748, at Deerfield, 
married Rachel Easton. He went as lieutenant in Cap- 
tain Noble's company from Pittsfield on the Lexington 
alarm, but was soon detailed as surgeon. 

His son. Dr. Henry Halsey Childs, married Sarah , 

and had Annie Childs, who married Ellas Merwin, and 
was mother of Annie Childs Merwin. 

III. 

James Easton, commanded as colonel the Berkshire 
Militia at the opening of the Revolutionary War, and was 
second in command to Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort 
Ticonderoga. 

His daughter, Rachel Easton, married Timothy Childs. 

Mrs. John H. Morison, (967.) (See Eliot.) 

Miss Charlotte A. Moseley, (8,446,) descends from 

I. 

Ebenezer Moseley, born February 19, 1741, at Windham, 
Conn., died there March 20, 1825 ; son of Rev. Samuel 
Moseley (Harvard, 1729,) Chaplain to Governor Belcher 
at Castle William, and Bethiah, daughter of Joseph Otis, 
and granddaughter of John Otis, the emigrant. He mar- 
ried, September 14, 1773, Martha, daughter of Caleb and 
Phebe (Lyman) Strong of Northampton, and sister of 



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Governor Caleb Strong ; three of her sisters married 
Revolutionary officers. 

He graduated at Yale College, 1763, was licensed to 
preach by Brookfield Association June 19, 1765, and went 
immediately on a mission among the Western Indians on 
the Susquehanna River. Many articles of Indian manu- 
facture which he brought back are in the possession of his 
family. After his return to Windham the town organized 
a Committee of Correspondence with the selectmen of 
Boston, of which he was a member. In 1775 Governor 
Trumbull organized six Connecticut regiments, and he be- 
came captain of Ninth company. Third regiment, Israel 
Putnam being captain of the First. The latter being 
elected brigadier general, led the regiment to Bunker Hill, 
where they bore a conspicuous part, and Samuel Moseley, 
brother to Ebenezer, and a corporal of the Fifth company 
(Knowlton's), was killed at the rail fence, the key of the 
position. 

On January 27, 1777, Captain Moseley was authorized, 
by proclamation of the Governor, "to raise 1,092 men 
in the state to join the army at Providence, under General 
Spence, as the quota of Connecticut." Three additional 
companies were afterward raised, of one of which he was 
commissioned captain, and afterwards he was made 
colonel of the Fifth regiment, 1789-91. He was repre- 
sentative in the Connecticut Legislature in 1776-78-79-83 
and '85. When Hampton was set off from Windham he 
represented the former town in 1789-95, and from 1800-1806, 
with but one intermission. 

His children were, (i) Patty, married Rev. Caleb Blake, 
(Harvard, 1762) ; (2) Sophia, married Hon. John Abbot, 



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(Harvard, 1798), Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Free- 
masons in Massachusetts, and as such laid corner stone of 
Bunker Hill Monument with General Lafayette; (3) 
Samuel ; (4) Ebenezer. Sophia, Samuel, Ebenezer, left de- 
scendants. 

His son, Hon. Ebenezer Moseley (Yale, 1802), married 
xMary Ann Oxnard, and had Edward Strong Moseley 
(Yale, 1833,) Member Massachusetts Society of Cincin- 
nati, married Charlotte Augusta Chapman, and was 
father of Charlotte A. Moseley. 

H. 

Jonathan Buck, born at Woburn^ February 20, 1719, 
died at Bucksport, Me., March 18, 1795, son of Ebenezer 
and Lydia (Ames) Buck. He married, October 9, 1742, 
Lydia Morse. 

He received a lieutenant's commission from Provincial 
Government, 1745 ; served in Captain Mooer's company, 
Colonel Bagley's regiment, in Canada, 1759, enlisting 
from Haverhill ; commissioned colonel of State troops in 
Revolutionary Army, 1775. He was such an ardent Whig 
that he sacrificed his property, and declared he would lose 
his head before he took the oath of allegiance to Great 
Britain. His house, two barns, saw-mill and sloop 
" Hannah " were burned in 1779 in the then Territory of 
Maine, where he had settled in 1762, by the British, who 
had established themselves in fortifications at Bagaduce, 
and raided the country about. After the war he returned 
to his home, and rebuilt his house and mill. In 1792 the 
town was incorporated and named after him, "Bucks- 
port." 

His children were, (i) Jonathan ; (2) Mary ; (3) Eben- 



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ezer ; (4) Amos ; (5) Daniel ; (6) Lydia. One daughter 
married Col. Thomas Dustin. Jonathan and Ebenezer 
left descendants. 

III. 

His son, Ebenezer Buck, born April 25, 1752, died April 
20, 1824, married, March 5, 1781, Mary Brown, grand- 
daughter of Col. James Gilmore of Revolutionary War. 

He was lieutenant in Captain James' company, Fifth 
regiment, Maine troops, Lincoln Co., in 1776; lieutenant, 
August i9=September 28, 1777, Captain Reid's company, 
in his father's. Col. Jonathan Buck's, regiment ; captain, 
July 30-October 22, 1779, in Colonel Barnes' regiment, 
General Lovel's brigade. He took a prominent part in 
the campaigns of Machias and Penobscot, at the critical 
time when the British, under Colonel Maclean, took pos- 
session of that country, was taken prisoner and threatened 
with punishment unless he entered the royal service, but 
he resisted with firmness. His house and contents were 
burned. After the war he built the first frame house in 
Bucksport. It was large and commodious for the times, 
and, owing to the great hospitality of the owner, was ever 
a place of great resort. He was a great hunter, and during 
his period of service found his powers ot great usefulness. 
" Filled with patriotic ardor, he came up to this town, and 
carried off four Tories to Camden." — (History of Bucks- 
port.) 

His children were, (i) William ; (2) Jane; (3) George; 
(4) Alice ; (5) Charles ; (6) Henry ; (7) Caroline. All but 
George left descendants. 

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Chapman, D.D. (Dartmouth, 1804), and had Charlotte 
Augusta Chapman, who married Edward Strong Moseley. 

Mrs. Thomas Motley, Jr., (1,811). (See Appleton.) 

Mrs. J. Howard Nichols, (25,742,) descends from 
John Tenney, born April 9, 1723, at Rowley, died July 
5, 1808. He married Rose Chandler. 

He served at Bunker Hill, and three months in New 
York State as first lieutenant under Capt. John Dodge, 
and received his discharge April i, 1777. 

His son, John Tenney, married Patience Young, and 
had James Chandler Tenney, who married Charlotte 
Peabody, and had Charlotte Chandler Tenney, who mar- 
ried Daniel Kimball, and was mother of Charlotte Chand- 
ler Kimball, who married J. Howard Nichols. 
Mrs. Charles O'Neil, (2,662.) (See Gill.) 
Mrs. Charles Jackson Paine, (6,802,) descends from 

I. 

John Bryant, born May 11, 1743, at Boston, died May i, 
1816, at Springfield. He married Hannah Mason. 

He served as lieutenant in Capt. Benjamin Frothing- 
ham's company. Col. John Crane's regiment, 1778. On 
August 20, 1779, he enlisted for three years, or during the 
war. He lost his arm at Stony Point, and was afterwards 
in charge of military stores and prisoners at Springfield. 
He was promoted to the rank of captain, 1779. 

His son, John Bryant, married Mary Cleveland Smith, 
and had John Bryant, who married Mary Anna Lee, and 
was father of Julia Bryant, who married Charles Jackson 
Paine. 



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II. 

David Mason, born March 28, 1726, at Boston, died 
there September 17, 1794. He married Hannah Symmes. 
He was major of the Massachusetts artillery regiment 
under Col. Richard Gridley, May ig-July 31, 1775; en- 
listed with rank of lieutenant-colonel of artillery for three 
years, August 20, 1779 ; served with artillery artificers at 
Springfield. 

His daughter, Hannah Mason, married John Bryant. 

Mrs. Charles Henry Parker, (1,457,) descends from 

I. 

John Brinckerhoff, born 1702 at Flatlands, Long Island, 
N. Y., died 1785 at Brinckerhoff Manor House, Fishkill, 
N. Y.; son of Derick and Aeltje (Couwenhoven) Brincker- 
hoff. He married, March, 1725, Janetje, daughter of Jo- 
hannes Coert Van Voorhees. 

He bore the rank of colonel in the Colonial service. At 
the time of the Revolution he was too old for active ser- 
vice ; but he was an ardent patriot, and in his house at 
Fishkill, built by him in 1638, and still standing, he re- 
received many of the most distinguished men of the times. 
He was the warm, faithful and valued friend of George 
Washington, and while the army was encamped on the 
Hudson his house was often made the General's head- 
quarters, while those of General Lafayette were at his 
brother's, a mile and a half off. Here the young French 
general lay ill for weeks with a fever, and every day 
Washington himself rode over to make the most anxious 
inquiries. Even after the war was over he did not cease 



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his visits to the Brinckerhoff house for repose and 
change of scene and consultation with his old friend. 

Many family traditions were handed down about this 
interesting period. It was never forgotten how one day 
the familiar rumble of the General's travelling coach and 
the clatter of the hoofs of his outriders' horses were heard 
in the distance on the highway, and how the Colonel 
hurried to the gate to meet him ; how the carriage 
swept by without slackening speed, while the General 
waved his hand from the window with, '* Not today, 
Brinckerhoff ! not today ! Important state business !" 
and how soon after they were thrilled with the news of 

Arnold's treachery and Andre's capture. 

Colonel Brinckerhoff was a devout member of the Dutch 
Church, and when Washington first came to his house he 
said, "General, I am commander-in-chief in my own 
house, and I wish every one under my roof to attend 
family prayers." it is needless to say that General 
Washington never failed to do so. 

Colonel Brinckerhoff's eldest son, Johannis Brincker- 
hoff, married Antje Martense, and both dying before they 
reached the age of thirty, left one child. 

II. 

Adrian Martense Brinckerhoff, born at Fishkill. He 
married, 1773, Adriana, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Van 
der Linde, first Dutch clergyman ordained in America, 
and Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Schuyler, member of 
the Colonial Legislature of New Jersey, and great-grand- 
daughter of Philip Petersen Van Schuyler, first Gover- 
nor of New York. 



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He was brought up in his grandfather's house, and in- 
herited all his patriotic spirit. He was an officer in the 
Second regiment of Duchess Co. Militia, and his commis- 
sion as quartermaster was issued October 17, 1775. 

His daughter, Hester Van der Linde Brinckerhoff, born 
at Brinckerhoff Manor House, 1782, married, 1802, Peter 
Jackson. She was distinguished for beauty, intellect and 
character, and lived to the age of one hundred and one, 
retaining all her faculties to the very last. She could re- 
late graphic incidents of the five great wars of this conti- 
nent — French and Indian, Revolution, 1812, Mexican, and 
Rebellion, in all of which her near relatives were active 
participants. She could remember seeing General Wash- 
ington a visitor at her grandfather's house. She was a 
petted favorite of the great man, who would hold her 
fondly on his knee while engaged in earnest conversation 
with his friend, and though the subjects of their talk were 
far above her infant comprehension, she never forgot the 
strength and earnestness of his tones or his emphatic 
gestures. She loved to tell her descendants of these 
things, and to repeat the old Revolutionary rhymes, 
especially the favorite toast : 

" Here's a health to the States 
And the brave General Gates, 

Whose conduct in history will shine ; 
In the year seventy-seven, 
By the blessing of heaven. 

He conquered important Burgoyne." 

III. 
Oliver Wolcott, born November 20, 1726, at Litchfield, 



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Conn., died there December 6, 1797, son of Roger and 
Sarah (Drake) Wolcott. He married, January 21, 1755, 
Laura, daughter of Captain Daniel Collins. 

He graduated at Yale College, 1747. He filled every 
rank in the Continental Army, from captain to major- 
general. On July 4, 1776, he signed the Declaration of 
Independence. He was a member of Congress from 1781 
-'83 ; a Presidential Elector in 1796, voting for Adams and 
Pinckney; and from 1796 to his death, Governor of 
Connecticut. 

It was at Litchfield that the equestrian statue of King 
George II., broken up and brought from the Bowling 
Green, New York, was cast into bullets by the ladies of 
the village. Two of Mr. Wolcott's daughters, Laura and 
Mary Anne, and his son Frederick, participated in this 
patriotic service. 

His son. Judge Frederick Wolcott, married Elizabeth 
Huntington, and was father of Elizabeth Huntington 
Wolcott, who married John B. Jackson. 

IV. 

Jabez Huntington. (See Hooker.) 

V. 

Joshua Huntington. (See Hooker.) 

Mrs. David Pearce Penhallow, (7,497,) descends from 
John Woodbridge, born July 24, 1732, at Poquonnock, 
now Windsor, Conn., died December 27, 1782, at South 
Hadley, son of Rev. John (pastor of South Hadley,) and 
Tryphena (Ruggles) Woodbridge. His father was the 
fifth of that name and title in succession. The first of 



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these was of Stanton, Wiltshire, England ; the second 
(the emigrant,) married Mercy, daughter of Gov. Thomas 
Dudley. He married, June lo, 1762, Mary Whitney. He 
was captain for eight years in the French War, and major 
in the war of the Revolution. The Woodbridge house in 
South Hadley is still in possession of their descendants, 
the Dunlaps. 

His daughter, Martha Woodbridge, married John Dun- 
lap, and had Samuel Dunlap ; married Sarah Electa Field, 
and was father of Sarah Almira Dunlap, who married 
Professor David Pearce Penhallow. 

Mrs. Henry Pickering, (2,349.) (See Fitz.) 

Miss Agnes Blake Poor, (3,972,) ) , 

^ r^ , r descend from 

Miss LucyTappan Poor, (3,973,) ) 

I. 

Ezekiel Merrill. (See Fox.) 

II. 
John Varnum. (See Fox.) 

III. 

William Homes, born January 16, 1716-17, at Boston, 
died there July, 1785, son of Robert Homes, who was son 
of William Homes, (the emigrant,) second pastor of Chil- 
mark, Martha's Vineyard, and married Mary, daughter of 
Josiah and Abiah (Folger) Franklin, and sister of Dr. 
Benjamin Franklin. He married, April 24, 1740, Rebecca, 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Story) Dawes. 

He was a merchant of good repute in Boston, held the 
commission of Justice of the Peace under the Royal Gov- 



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ernor, and was lieutenant (1761) of the Artillery company, 
and captain (i765)"in that regiment of which John Hancock 
was colonel. In 1770 he left Boston, it is supposed on 
account of his hostility to the despotic acts of the British 
Government, and bought a farm in the town of Norton, 
where he removed with his family ; was selectman of that 
town 1773-81, and for several years moderator of the 
annual town meetings. On January 18, 1773, he signed, 
with others, a letter of encouragement to the Committee 
of Correspondence on the difficulties with Great Britain. 
In 1775 he went as delegate from Norton and Mansfield 
to the second and third Provincial Congresses of Massa- 
chusetts, in which he took a prominent part, being on 
committees: (i) That of Correspondence and Safety for 
Bristol Co. (2) On assisting the poor of Boston to 
move out with their effects. (3) On distributing them 
in the towns. (4) For providing arms for the destitute. 
(5) To wait on Gen. Washington, about adjournment 
of Congress, to prevent intelligence being given to the 
enemy. 

He died while on a visit to Boston, where his son 
William long lived in an old-fashioned house on Ann 
street, the site of the present Oak Hall. He and his 
wife are buried in King's Chapel churchyard. 

Captain Homes was a man of strict piety, and devoted 
to every patriotic, social and family duty. He was a rigid 
keeper of Sunday, and it is related of him that being at 
Charleston, South Carolina, on business, he refused to let 
a vessel of his leave port on that day, when all others in 
port did, to take advantage of a fair wind ; and that his, 
leaving early on Monday morning, outstripped them alli 



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and reached Boston much in advance, to his consequent 
great profit. " He was," says his biographer, " inclined 
to jocoseness, though he checked the propensity as far as 
possible ! " He was a fine old Puritan figure, with all its 
characteristic traits heightened by his Scotch descent. 

He had fifteen children, (i) Mary, married Barnabas 
Webb ; (2) William ; (3) Thomas ; (4) Katharine ; (5) 
Abigail ; (6) Rebecca ; (7) Sarah ; (8) Benjamin ; (9) Eliza- 
beth, and six others who died in infancy. Mary, William, 
Sarah and Benjamin, left descendants. 

His daughter, Sarah Homes, married Benjamin Tappan, 
and had Lucy, who married Rev. John Pierce, D.D., cf 
Brookline, and had Mary Wild Pierce, who married Henry 
Varnum Poor, (Bowdoin College, 1837,) and was mother 
of Agnes Blake Poor, and Lucy Tappan Poor. 

Mrs. Alexander S. Porter, (4,972,) descends from 

I. 

Charles Cushing, born July 13, 1744, in Hingham, died 
November 25, 1809, son of Jacob and Mary (Chauncy) 
Cushing. He married, February 23, 1769, Hannah, 
daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Cushing) Croade. 

As captain of Hingham company he was stationed in 
Roxbury during the siege of Boston. After the evacu- 
ation his company generally re-enlisted for one year from 
January i, 1776, and went to Canada, in Gen. Thomas' 
command, by way of New York, Albany, Stillwater, and 
Fort Edward to Montreal, where they arrived May 21, 
1776. He saved his company from the ravages of small 
pox by the then ultra proceeding of inoculation, and 
returned on horseback across the Hoosac Ridge, the first 



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time it was ever crossed except on foot. He was after- 
ward colonel of a Continental regiment, and representative 
to the General Court, 1780-84 and 1790-93, member of the 
Committee of Correspondence, 1779-81. Lincoln's history 
of Hingham says, " Charles Cushing was one of the most 
respectable and influential Whigs of the Revolution in 
Hingham. He was a gentleman of excellent natural 
abilities, zealous and persevering in whatever engaged." 
He moved to Lunenburg in 1797, and settled on what has 
since been called the Brooks farm, about one mile west of 
the centre of the town. 

His children were, (i) Mary, married William Harring- 
ton ; (2) Charles ; (3) Edmund ; (4) Chauncy ; (5) Josiah ; 
(6) Priscilla, married Thomas Stearns ; (7) Hannah ; (8) 
Hannah, married William Harrington; (9) Charles; (10) 
Charles. 

His son, Edmund Cushing, married Mary Stearns, and 
had Luther Stearns Cushing, who married Mary Otis 
Lincoln, and was father of Frances A. Cushing, who 
married Alexander S. Porter. 

IL 

Josiah Stearns, born July 18, 1747, at Littleton, died 
April 6, 1822, son of Thomas and Abigail Reed Stearns, 
married March 6, 1769, Mary Corey. He settled in 
Lunenburg, was much employed in public life ; in 1775 
commanded a company of fifty men from Lunenburg ; 
afterwards filled many town and state offices. 

His children were, (i) Luther ; (2) Susanna ; (3) Asahel ; 
(4) Mary ; (5) Thomas ; (6) Elizabeth, married Major Levi 
Houghton ; (7) Sarah, married Capt. James Patterson ; 



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(8) Oliver ; (9) Susanna, married Joseph Bicknell ; (10) 
Ann, married Benjamin Snow. 
His daughter, Mary Stearns, married Edmund Gushing. 

III. 

Benjamin Lincoln. (See Tinkham.) 

IV. 

James Otis, Sr. (See Eliot.) 

V. 

His son, James Otis, Jr., born Februarys, 1724-5, at the 
family mansion of " Great Marshes," Barnstable, died 
May 23, 1783, at Andover, buried on the Granary burying- 
ground at Boston. His mother was Mary Alleyne. He 
was a descendant of John Otis the emigrant. He married 

1755, Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel and (Boucher) 

Cunningham. 

He graduated at Harvard College in 1743, studied law 
in the office of Jeremiah Gridley, and began practice at 
Plymouth ; soon after settled in Boston. In the year 1761, 
he made his famous speech against writs of assistance, a 
speech which caused President Adams to exclaim in after 
years, " I do say in the most solemn manner, that Mr. 
Otis' oration against writs of assistance breathed into 
this nation the breath of life." Later he was chosen 
representative, and was re-elected to that office every year. 
He was the first to suggest that a Congress should be 
called at the time of the proposed Stamp Act. The Con- 
gress met in New York, in October 1765, and James Otis 
was one of a committee appointed to draw up a petition to 
the crown. "Before the year 1770, no American," says 
his biographer, *' * Dr. Franklin excepted, was so much 



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known and was so often named in other colonies and in 
England. His papers have all perished ; none of his 
speeches were recorded, and himself having been cut off 
before the Revolution actually began, his name is con- 
nected with none of the public documents that are familiar 
to the nation. It is owing to this combination of circum- 
stances, that the most learned, the most eloquent, the most 
ardent, the most influential man of his time, is now so 
little known that to many persons the following language 
of President Adams may seem exaggerated: 'I have 
been young and am now old, and I solemnly say I have 
never known a man whose love of country was more 
ardent or sincere, never one who suffered so much, never 
one whose services for any ten years of his life were so 
important and essential to the cause of his country as those 
of Mr. Otis from 1760 to 1770.' " In 1770 he was attacked 
by a royalist of the name of Robinson, cruelly beaten, and 
his head cut open. His wounds, though not mortal, de- 
stroyed his reason, and the great man was no longer 
feared by his enemies. Once or twice he tried to resume 
his practice, but it was of little use, and his old surround- 
ings brought on such an attack of melancholy that he was 
persuaded by his family and friends to return to Andover, 
where he had lived since his mind had become affected. 
The manner of his death was a singular coincidence with 
a wish he had often expressed to his sister, Mrs. Warren : 
*' My dear sister, I hope when God Almighty in his right- 
eous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, 
that it will be by a flash of lightning." His wish was 
granted. 
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merits, ** The future historian of the United States, in con- 
sidering the foundation of American Independence, will 
find that one of the corner stones must be inscribed with 
the name of James Otis." 

His children were, (i) James, who died young, unmar- 
ried ; (2) Elizabeth, who married Capt. Brown of the 
British army; (3) Mary, who married Gen. Benjamin 
Lincoln. 

Mrs. Elliot W. Pratt, (21,572,) descends from 
Artemas Ward, born November 27, 1727, at Shrews- 
bury, died there October 27, 1800; son of Col. Nahum and 
Martha (How) Ward, and great-grandson of William 
Ward, the emigrant. He married, July 31, 1750, Sarah, 
daughter of Rev. Caleb and Hannah (Walter) Trowbridge, 
a descendant of Rev. Increase Mather and Rev. John 
Cotton. 

He graduated from Harvard College in 1748; in 1762 
was a Justice ; 1776, Chief Justice of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for the County of Worcester ; 1758, a major in 
the expedition against Canada ; 1759, appointed colonel ; 
1766, his commission as colonel revoked for his inflexible 
opposition to arbitrary power, whereupon he informed the 
Royal Governor that he had been twice honored. In 1768 
he was chosen one of the Executive Council, and by the 
Royal Governor, and for the same reason negatived and 
deprived of a seat at that board ; in 1779 appointed a 
member of the Continental Congress, and, under the 
Federal Government, repeatedly elected a member ; 16 
years a representative from Shrewsbury in the Legisla- 
ture, and in 1775 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



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In 1775 he was appointed by the colony of Massachusetts 
to the command of the army at Cambridge and all other 
Massachusetts troops, and, by the Continental Congress, 
first major-general in the army of the Revolution, in which 
capacity he commanded at Bunker Hill. On the arrival 
of General Washington, who had been elected as com- 
mander-in-chief, the supreme command was surrendered 
to him, but General Ward remained in command of the 
right wing of the army, stationed at Roxbury, and it was 
he who proposed and successfully carried out the forti- 
fying of Dorchester Heights, which led to the immediate 
abandonment of the city of Boston by the British forces. 
General Ward was then left in command at Boston, but 
resigned in 1776. In 1779, in his capacity of Chief Justice 
of the Courts of Session and Common Pleas, he took a 
decided part in putting down Shay's rebellion, and, though 
usually a man of slow and hesitating speech, he addressed 
the people of Shrewsbury, though surrounded by the rebel 
army with fixed bayonets, with such fluency, fervor and 
eloquence as to confound the insurgents, who soon after- 
ward laid down their arms and dispersed. 

His portrait hangs in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. 

His children were, (i) Ithamar ; (2) Nahum, a captain in 
the Continental Army, who died in service, 1778; (3) 
Sarah, married Hon. Elijah Brigham ; (4) Thomas Wal- 
ter ; (5) Martha ; (6) Artemas ; (7) Maria, married Dr. 
Ebenezer Tracy ; (8) Henry Dana. All but Nahum and 
Martha left descendants. 

His son, Thomas Walter Ward, married Elizabeth 
Denny, and had Andrew Henshaw Ward, married Sarah 
Henshaw, and had Sarah Ann Henshaw Ward, who mar- 



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ried Francis Sumner Carruth, and was mother of Frances 
Emily Carruth, who married Elliot William Pratt. 

Mrs. George Langdon Pratt, (1,051,) descends from 

Eleazer Weld, born February 19, 1737, at Roxbury, 
Mass. ; son of Joseph and Martha (Child) Weld, and 
great-grandson of Capt. Joseph Weld, the emigrant, first 
commanding officer in the colony's service. He married 
Mary Hatch. 

On March 8, 1770, he was appointed by the town of 
Roxbury to wait on Governor Hutchinson to request that 
the King's troops be withdrawn from Boston. February 
14, 1776, he received his commission as colonel. April 23, 
1777, he was appointed one of the Committee of Inspection 
and Public Safety. He was paymaster of the Continental 
Army 1777-8, and on duty as colonel in 1780. 

His son, William Gordon Weld, married Hannah Minot, 
and had William Fletcher Weld, who married Mary Pit- 
man Bryant, and was father of Sarah Minot Weld, who 
married George Langdon Pratt. 

Mrs. Henry P. Quincy, (1,052,) descends from 

I. 

John Adams, born October 18, 1735, at Braintree, died 
July 4, 1826, at Quincy ; son of John and Susanna 
(Boylston) Adams, and great-great-grandson of Henry 
Adams, the emigrant. He married, October 2, 1764, 
Abigail, daughter of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Quincy) 
Smith. 

He graduated at Harvard College in 1755. He early 
adopted the cause of the Revolution, and in 1765, at a 
public meeting in Braintree, he opposed the Stamp Act, 



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and drew up resolutions which were afterwards adopted 
verbatim by forty other towns. His love of justice was 
shown by his defence, in 1770, of Captain Preston and 
others for their part in the Boston riots, and, though the 
public mind was in so inflamed a state, he obtained a ver- 
dict of acquittal without losing his popularity, in 1774 he 
was sent to the Continental Congress. He was one of 
the committee which adopted the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. In 1777 he was Commissioner to France ; in 
1779 he was sent again with plenipotentiary powers. 
After the peace, in 1785, he was Ambassador to England, 
and received the thanks of Congress for his long and 
arduous diplomatic service. He was vice-president, under 
Washington, 1793-7, and for the four years after he was 
second President of the United States. He spent the last 
years of his life in honored peace and retirement at Brain- 
tree (then Quincy). 

His son, John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the 
United States, married Louisa Catherine Johnson, and 
had Charles Francis Adams, who married Abigail B. 
Brooks, and was father of Mary Adams, who married 
Henry P. Quincy. 

Mrs. David Hall Rice, (2,058), descends from 

I. 

Benjamin Garland, born October 29, i734,at Rye,N.H., 
died there May 2, 1808. He married, December i, 1756, 
Sarah Jenness. 

He was a colonel of militia, and always so designated ; 
was a son and grandson of colonial fighters for their 
country. He was a minute-man in the war, and served 



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the town of Rye in 1775 and 1781 in obtaining soldiers, 
enlisting and equipping men for the war. All of his three 
brothers served at that time, one in civil life and two in 
the army, while his oldest son, with his oxen, drew a load 
of powder taken from Fort William Henry, Newcastle, 
N.H., to Newport, R.I., at the time a very important ser- 
vice. His next son, at the age of thirteen years, served 
twenty-five days in the army, also many of his brothers 
and sons-in-law. 

His son, William Garland, married Elizabeth How, and 
had Thomas Berry Garland, who married Harriet Kim- 
ball, and was father of Elizabeth How Garland, who 
married David Hall Rice. 

II. 

David How, born December 19, 1759, at Methuen, died 
January 9, 1841, at Haverhill. He married. May 18, 1780, 
Persis Whittier. 

He went to Lexington at the alarm, though he did not 
arrive in time to be of service. He was at Bunker Hill, 
with five or six of his brothers, and thenceforward during 
the war. He was at the dedication of the Bunker Hill 
IWonument. His diary of the war was published under 
the title of " David How, a Soldier of the Revolution." A 
copy is in the Boston Public Library. His descendants 
possess two military badges worn by him, one as a soldier 
of the Continental Army, the other as a one at Bunker 
Hill, also a gun which he took from a Hessian in single 
combat at the battle of Trenton. A photograph from his 
miniature (by Doyle, 1803,) is in the Archives of the 
Chapter. 

His daughter, Elizabeth How, married William Garland, 



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III. 

Daniel Kimball, born 1751, at Littleton, died there 1813. 
He married, 1779, Lucy Dutton. 

He was a corporal in Weed's company, Prescott's regi- 
ment, April 18, 1775 ; a week later was a sergeant in Gil- 
bert's company of the same regiment, serving there ninety- 
eight days, and a year later was first lieutenant in Jewett's 
company. Sixth Massachusetts regiment. He had at least 
two brothers in the war. 

His son, Daniel Kimball, married Mary Whitcomb, and 
had Harriett Kimball, who married Thomas Berry Gar- 
land. 

Mrs. James Bailey Richardson, (5,678,) descends from 

L 

Reuben Duren, died October 15, 1823. He married 
Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Parkhurst) 
Gould. 

He was engaged in the pursuit of the British Army 
from Concord, and trophies brought home by him are 
still preserved in the family. 

His son, Nathaniel Duren, took, by adoption of his 
uncle, his mother's name of Gould. He married Anne 
Prichard Andrews, and had Augustus Addison Gould 
(Harvard College 1825), married Harriet Cushing Sheafe, 
and was father of Lucy Cushing Gould, who married 
James Bailey Richardson. (Dartmouth College 1853. 
Judge of Mass. Supreme Court.) 

H. 

Paul Prichard, born 1721 in Wales, died 1787; married 
Hannah Perley. 



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He was a conspicuous member of the Committee of 
Safety and Correspondence and that on the arranging of 
claims, and contributed of his means to the cause ; was 
representative to General Court, 1779, and selectman, 
1784-7. He had two sons in the Continental Army. 

His son, Amos Prichard, married Anne Andrews, and 
was father to Sarah Andrews Prichard, who married 
Nathaniel (Duren) Gould. 

III. 

Jacob Sheafe, born September 6, 1745, died July 25, 
1825, son of Jacob and Hannah (Seavey) Sheafe. He mar- 
ried Mary Plaisted, daughter of Hon. Edmund and Ann 
(Huske) Quincy. 

He was appointed naval agent by Washington and 
commissary for New England forces at Quebec. 

His son, Henry Quincy Sheafe, married Lucy Sumner 
Gushing, and was father of Harriet Gushing Sheafe, who 
married Augustus Addison Gould. 

IV. 

John Gushing, born July 11, 1695, died March 19, 1778 ; 
son of Hon. John and Deborah (Loring) Gushing. He 
married Mary Winslow, daughter of Rev. Joshua and 
Hannah (Winslow) (Sturtevant) Cotton. 

He was Judge of the Superior Court, Councillor of the 
Province, 1746-63, and one of the presiding judges at the 
trial of the British soldiers for the " Boston Massacre," 
March 5, 1770. 

V, 

His son, Charles Gushing, born 1755, died 1810, mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Increase and Sarah (Sharpe) 
Sumner. 



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He graduated at Harvard College, 1755. He occupied 
public stations under the Royal and Republican Govern- 
ments for fifty years continuously. He served through 
the war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. His 
brothers, Hon. William and Brigadier-General Ronald, 
were also distinguished in the public service. 

His daughter, Lucy (Sumner) Gushing, married Henry 
Quincy Sheafe. 

Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson, (4,514), descends from 

Joseph Cutler, born March 9, 1757, in Western (now 
Warren), died there February 23, 1837. He married 
Lydia Bascom. 

He commanded a company from Western as captain, 
and marched to join General Gates' command, September 
24, 1777. 

His daughter, Lydia Cutler, married Clark Paige, and 
had Lydia Paige, who married Ansel Phelps, Jr., and was 
mother of Ellen Phelps, who married Thomas F. Richard- 
son. 

Mrs. George Partridge Sanger, (22,120,) descends from 

L 

Asahel Jewell, signed on June 3, 1776, the Association 
of the Citizens of Winchester, N.H., promising "that 
they would, to the utmost of their power and at the risk 
of their lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile 
proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the 
united American colonies." 

His son, Asahel Jewell, married Hepzibah Chamberlin, 
and had Pliny Jewell, who married Emily Alexander, and 



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had Harvey Jewell, who married Susan Ayer Bradley, 
and was father of Susan Jewell, who married George 
Partridge Sanger. 

II. 

Moses Chamberlin, son of Jacob and Pheba Chamber- 
lin, married Mary Vinton. 

He was mustered into service May 26, 1775, in Captain 
Walker's company ; was sergeant in Capt. Samuel 
Young's company, 1777-8. 

He served as lieutenant in New Hampshire regiment 
commanded by Col. Timothy Bearse, raised for the de- 
fence of the frontier on the Connecticut River, April i, 
1778-April I, 1779. 

He was representative to Legislature from Winchester, 
1789, colonel Sixth regiment, 1793. 

His daughter, Hepzibah Chamberlin, married Asahel 

Jewell. 

III. 

Asa Alexander, born 1742, died November 4, 181 1 ; son 
of Ebenezer and Abigail (Rockwood) Alexander, great- 
great-grandson of John Alexander, the emigrant (from 
Scotland). He married Mary Bond. 

He signed the Winchester declaration quoted above. 
His two brothers. Col. Reuben and Capt. John Alexander, 
both served in the Revolutionary Army. 

His son, John Alexander, married Sally Pratt, and was 
father of Emily Alexander, who married Pliny Jewell. 

IV. 

John Bradley, born February 13, 1743, at Concord, 
N. H., died there July 6, 1815. He married Hannah 
Ayer. 



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He was first lieutenant in Capt. Benjamin Emery's 
company, and his commission, dated Exeter, December 6, 
1775, is in the old homestead at Concord, now occupied by 
Moses Hazen Bradley. 

His son, Richard Bradley, married Elizabeth Ayer, and 
was father of Susan Ayer Bradley, who married Harvey 
Jewell. 

Miss Mary Noyes Shaw, (2,732,) descends from 
Elijah Shaw, born August 26, 1745, died June 24, 1824 ; 
son of Joseph and Ruth (Derby) Shaw, and great-great- 
great-grandson of Abraham Shaw, the emigrant. He 
married, January 12, 1769, Hannah, daughter of Nehemiah 
and Hannah (North) (Bennett) Smith. 

He fought with his father and brothers, Benjamin and 
Joseph, in the French and Indian War, joining in the ex- 
pedition of 1758 to Schenectady. At the outset of the 
Revolutionary War he was commissioned first lieutenant, 
and was sent to Governor's Island (now Fort Winthrop), 
Boston, guarding the fortifications thereon, when it was 
burned, to keep it from falling into the hands of the 
British. The tongs with which he held the brand to fire 
the government buildings, and the gun he brought home 
from the French War, are in the possession of a great- 
granddaughter in Abington. As the Americans escaped 
in barges under the British fire, one of the company, being 
so frightened that he skulked in the bottom of the barge, 
was brought to a sense of duty by a threat from Lieuten- 
ant Shaw to knock his brains out with a barrel stave. 
He was at the battle of Saratoga, Crown Point, and other 
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his encampment in Cambridge, and after serving through 
the war was honorably discharged, drawing a pension the 
last years of his life. 

After the war he settled in South Abington, now Whit- 
man, in a house now standing near South street. Here 
his family of twelve children were born and reared. He 
moved thence to South Abington on the farm now occupied 
by Reuben Loud, and one piece of his work there can to- 
day be seen, being a huge rock set up on the south side of 
the street near the barn which now stands where his 
house did. This he hauled there with one pair of oxen. 
He was famous for holding new ground ploughs, and 
sought for that purpose. The ploughs in his barn, as 
described by a grandson, were colossal — some measuring 
25 feet from the end of handle to beam, and hauled by 
eight to twelve yoke of cattle. He was in much request 
for moving buildings, and was a contractor in building 
the Boston and New Bedford turnpike, as great an under- 
taking as to build a railroad now. At the age of sixty- 
eight he was chosen agent for the town to build what is 
now Union street, and, legal difficulties arising, he was 
chosen town advocate, in which capacity he showed great 
ability, and won his case. He was a leading spirit in the 
incorporation of the third parish of Abington, now Rock- 
land, and active in erecting their first meeting-house. He 
was buried by the side of his wife, in the old Liberty 
Street Cemetery, respected and honored by all who knew 
him. 

His son, Jared Shaw, married Lydia Whiting, and had 
Elijah, who married Mary Noyes Wales, and was father 
of Mary Noyes Shaw. 



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Mrs. Oliver Stevens, (2,808,) descends from 
Jonathan Stevens, born April 8, 1747, at Andover, died 
there, April 5, 1834, son of Ensign James and Sarah 
(Peabody) Stevens, and great-great-grandson of John 
Stevens the emigrant. His grandfather, Capt. James 
Stevens, and his father were prominent in the French and 
Indian Wars. The former was at the taking of Louis- 
burg, and the latter died in camp near Lake George. 

He fought at Concord and Lexington, under Capt. 
Thomas Poor, in Col. James Frye's regiment, also at 
Bunker Hill, under Capt. Benjamin Farnham in the same 
regiment. On August 14, 1777, he enlisted as private in 
Capt. Samuel Johnson's company, in same regiment, 
which was attached to the Northern Army and served at 
Ticonderoga. His discharge was dated November 30, 

1777. 

He was one of the old soldiers who were spared to hear 
Webster's address at the laying of the corner stone of 
Bunker Hill monument. 

His son, Nathaniel Stevens, married Harriet Hale, and 
was father of Catherine Stevens, who married Oliver 
Stevens. 

IL 

Moses Davis of Chelmsford, was a private in Capt. 
John Minot's company. Col. Dike's regiment, and served 
at Dorchester Heights. He was great-grandfather on her 
mother's side of Catherine Stevens who married Oliver 
Stevens. 

Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, (2,785,) descends from 

Paul Revere, born January i, 1735, at Boston, died there 



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May lo, 1818, son of the emigrant Apollos Rivoire, (later 
changed to Paul Revere) who came from the island of 
Guernsey, and was of a Huguenot family. Paul Revere's 
mother was Deborah Hitchborn. He married, (i) August 
i7» i757j Sarah Orne, (2) October 10, 1773, Rachel 
Walker. 

Like his father he was a gold and silversmith, and 
renowned for the beauty of his work, much of which is 
preserved in public and private collections. He learned 
engraving by himself, and sent forth a great number of 
patriotic plates, caricatures, and designs, which did much 
to stimulate the fervent spirit of American liberty. He 
served in the French and Indian War. On the night of 
April 18, 1775, he, at a signal of a lantern from Christ 
church steeple, set forth on his famous ride to Concord, to 
warn Adams and Hancock of the British march inland on 
the following day. It is one of the imperishable themes of 
song and story. He was commissioned April 10, 1776, 
major in the First regiment militia, and November 27, 
1776, lieutenant-colonel artillery. 

His son, by second wife, Joseph Warren Revere, mar- 
ried Mary Robbins. Two of their sons were killed in the 
War of the Rebellion. Their son, Paul Joseph Revere, 
married Lucretia Watson Lunt, and was father of Pauline 
Revere, who married Nathaniel Thayer. 

Mrs. Frank Ray Thomas, (8,784,) descends from 
Jonas French, born August 17, 1757, at Dunstable, died 
there, June 5, 1840, son of John and Mary French, and 
fourth in descent from William French the emigrant. He 
married Betty Marshall. 



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He enlisted in the Continental Army at the age of 
seventeen, in the Dunstable company, in Col. Ebenezer 
Bridges' regiment. He was present at the battle of Bunker 
Hill, and with his brother William, did good service on 
that memorable day. In crossing the neck the brothers 
found an officer badly wounded, and though exposed to the 
galling fire of the Glasgow, man-of-war, they tendered 
their services, which he declined on the ground that he 
was past recovery, urging them at the same time to escape 
the imminent danger to which they were exposed. They 
bore him, however, to a place of safety. He proved to be 
Capt. Henry Harwell, of Groton, Mass. He had a ball 
removed from his back the next day, and survived the 
operation many years. 

Jonas French's son, William French, married Sarah 
Baldwin, and had William Edward French, who married 
Sarah Augusta Kenison, and was father of Adelaide 
French, who married Frank Ray Thomas. 

Mrs. Henry Rodney Thompson, (2,731,)) ^^g^gj^j ^^^^ 
Mrs. Henry MacyUpham, (2,059,) ) 

I. 
Jonathan Locke, married in 1761, Mary (Haven) 

(Nichols). 

He was a member of the First Provincial Congress held 
at Salem, October 7, i774; member of the Middlesex 
Convention, held at Concord, August 30, 1774, and also 
October 1779 ; member of the Massachusetts Convention 
to frame a constitution, held at Cambridge, October 1779. 

He was a sergeant in the old French War, and was in 
several campaigns at Tlconderoga, and Crown Point, and 



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was for some years captain of militia during the Revolu- 
tionary War. 

His son, Hon. John Locke, Harvard College, 1792, 
M. C. 1823-29, married Hannah Goodwin, and had John 
Goodwin Locke, who married Jane Ermina Starkweather, 
and was father of Mary Haven Locke, who married 
Henry Rodney Thompson, and Grace Le Baron Locke, 
who married Henry Macy Upham. 

IL 

Nathaniel Goodwin, born 1748, at Plymouth, died 1819, 

son of Goodwin and LeBaron, (grand-daughter 

of Dr. Francis Le Baron De Montarnaud). He married 
Molly Jackson. 

During the Revolution he was captain, then major, then 
major-general ; and during the war of 1812, he held a con- 
tract under government for shot and shell. 

His daughter, Hannah Goodwin, married Hon. John 
Locke. 

Miss Helen Waterman Tinkham, (1,133,) ) 
Mrs. Winslow Warren, (2,155,) r descend from 

Mrs. Alexander S. Porter, (4,972,) ) 

Benjamin Lincoln, born January 24, 1732, at Hingham, 
died there January 15, 1810, son of Col. Benjamin and 
Elizabeth (Thaxter) (Norton) Lincoln, and great-great- 
grandson of Thomas Lincoln the emigrant. He married, 
January 15, 1756, at Pembroke, Mary, daughter of Elijah 
and Elizabeth (Barstow) Cushing. 

From an early age he filled positions of trust in his 
native town, such as Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace, 

Selectman, and Deacon of the First Church. In 1775 he 



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served as Secretary of the Provincial Congress and mem- 
ber of the Committee of Supplies, and afterwards as mem- 
ber of the Council. In February, 1776, he was appointed 
major-general, with chief direction of military affairs in 
Massachusetts. He drove from the harbor the British 
ships which remained there after the evacuation of Boston, 
and fortified the harbor as well as possible with the means 
at his command. 

In September, 1776, he was called with one-fifth of the 
Massachusetts militia to New York, after the battle of 
Long Island, and was seriously wounded in a skirmish on 
October 8. He was carried on a couch in a sleigh from 
Albany to Hingham, and reported as fit for duty in August. 
On February 19, at Washington's urgent suggestion, he 
was appointed by Congress major-general in the Conti- 
nental Army. He was presented by Washington with 
one of three swords sent by a gentleman of France for 
himself and two friends. 

On September 25, 1778, he was put in command of the 
Southern department, where he showed great energy and 
perseverance, but having a meagre army, and finding but 
little support in the population, he was forced to capitulate 
at Charleston to Sir Henry Clinton, May 12, 1780. He 
and his suitewere allowed to go to Philadelphia on parole, 
and afterward exchanged. No shadow rested on his 
military reputation, and in the spring of 1781 he received 
an important command in New York, and took part in the 
operations that led up to the siege and capture of York- 
town. As senior major-general on the ground, he was 
publicly thanked by Vv/ashington in his orders of October 
20. This event was peculiarly agreeable to him, as Lord 



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Cornwallis was obliged to accept the same terms of capitu- 
lation that he had imposed on Lincoln at Charleston. The 
duty of conducting the conquered enemy to the field where 
they were to lay down their arms also devolved upon 
Lincoln. He was then directed to conduct the American 
troops to their former headquarters on the Hudson, and on 
the march thither was informed of his appointment to the 
office of Secretary of War, then first created. When the 
resolution for disbanding the army was passed he sent in 
his resignation, and retired to private life at Hingham. 
His personal affairs had suffered during his long term of 
service, and he was too disabled by the wound he had re- 
ceived at Stillwater to resume the cultivation of his farm, 
and he turned his attention to wild lands in Maine, 
mortgaging his farm for this purpose. Here he was 
brought to the verge of ruin by pledging a large sum to 
his friend. General Knox, who entered into wild specu- 
lations and an extravagant style of living. Lincoln be- 
haved throughout with the strictest integrity, and in the 
end suffered no great loss, and was able to leave a moder- 
ate fortune to his children. 

In January, 1787, he was put in command of the troops 
to suppress Shays' Rebellion. He was among the most 
influential in bringing about the ratification of the Federal 
Constitution in Massachusetts. In 1788 he was elected 
lieutenant-governor, an office that carried with it that of 
Commander of the Castle. Having incurred the enmity 
of John Hancock on account of his popularity with the 
Federalists, he failed to get the latter position, and a 
handle was made of his firmness with the insurgents in 
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election the Democratic party gained the ascendancy, and 
he was thrown out of office. 

He was afterward first collector of the port of Boston, 
and several times commissioner for dealing with the 
Indians. In 1806, his infirmities increasing, he wished to 
resign the collectorship, but was requested by President 
Jefferson, though his political opponent, with high en- 
comiums, to retain the office till a suitable successor could 
be found, which was not till two years later. 

In 1780 Harvard College bestowed upon him the degree 
of M.A. He was one of the first members of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, and president of the Massachusetts 
Society of the Cincinnati from its beginning to his death. 

His children were, (i) Benjamin ; (2) Mary ; (3) Eliza- 
beth, married Hodijah Baylies; (4) Sarah, married Dr. 
Gridley Thaxter ; (5) Theodore, married Hannah May- 
hew ; (6) Martin ; (7) Bela ; (8) Martin ; (9) Edmund ; (10) 
Hannah, married Abner Lincoln ; (11) Deborah. Benja- 
min, Elizabeth, Sarah, Theodore, Martin and Hannah 
left descendants. 

His son, Benjamin Lincoln, married Mary, daughter of 
James Otis (see Porter), and had James Otis Lincoln, 
who married Elizabeth O. Stillman, and had Mary Otis 
Lincoln, who married Luther Stearns Cushing, and was 
mother of Frances W. Cushing, who married Alexander 
S. Porter. His son, Theodore Lincoln, married Hannah 
Mayhew, and had Sarah Lincoln, who married Spencer 
Tinkham, and was mother of Helen Waterman Tink- 
ham and of Mary L. Tinkham, who married Winslow 
Warren. 



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Mrs. Charles R. Train, (5,784,) descends from 
William Turner, born January 16, 1745, at Scituate, 
died January 15, 1808, at Turner, Me. ; son of Charles 

and Eunice ( ) Turner. He married (i) Betsey, 

daughter of Samuel Oakman ; (2) Eunice, daughter of 
Nathaniel Clapp. 

He graduated at Harvard College, 1767, and with his 
class-mate, Daniel Johnson, spoke the first forensic dis- 
putation ever recited in that university. In 1775 he raised 
a company of volunteers in Scituate, and marched with 
them on the Lexington alarm, in Col. John Bailey's regi- 
ment. He next served as major in the Plymouth and 
Barnstable regiment. He served in every active campaign 
of the Revolution, and was at different periods aid to 
Generals Washington, Lee, Greene, Lincoln and Knox. 
He was a man of intrepid character, and served with dis- 
tinction to the close of the war, retiring with the thanks 
of the commanding officers. 

Being detailed, at one period in the war, with a French 
officer to confer with the British commander upon an in- 
terchange of prisoners, the conference came well nigh 
being broken off in consequence of the British commander 
and Major Turner not being able to speak the French 
language, and the French officer not understanding Eng- 
lish, when it suddenly occurred to Major Turner that the 
other parties to the conference might be scholars, and he 
accordingly addressed them in Latin, in which he found 
them his equals. It resulted in the conference being held 
in the Latin tongue, and matters were happily arranged to 
the satisfaction of all, and to the great amusement of 



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General Washington, to whom the result was communi- 
cated. 

He was a member of the General Court of Massachu- 
setts 1777-8, and a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of that state, and also of a special 
congress of delegates at Concord to adjust the public cur- 
rency. After the close of the war he represented the town 
of Scituate several years in the Massachusetts Legislature. 
In 1801 he removed with his family to Turner, Me. He 
contributed very largely to the foundation and prosperity 
of this town, which commemorates his name. 

His children were, by first wife, (i) William ; (2) Betsey, 
married Capt. Jotham Tilden ; by second wife, (3) Xoa ; 
(4) Charles Lee ; (5) Stephen, who enlisted in the army, 
and was killed at the battle of Bridgewater ; (6) Eunice, 
married Martin Burr ; (7) Frances, married William Lee ; 
(8) 'Orient, married Benjamin Humphrey ; (9) Nancy, mar- 
ried Capt. Henry B. Sampson ; (10) Apphia ; (11) George. 

His daughter, Eunice Turner, married Martin Burr, and 
had Sarah Ann Burr, who married Jonathan H. Cheney, 
and was father of Sarah M. Turner, who married Charles 
R. Train. 

Mrs. Henry Macy Upham, (2,059.) (See Thompson.) 

Miss Ellen Maria Ward, (2,516,) "^ 

tMiss Julia Elizabeth Ward, (2,517,) ^ descend from 
(Died August 8, 1899.) ^ 

Moses Grant, born March 13, i743> at Boston, died 
December 22, 1817. He married Elizabeth Bowman. 

He was a member of the patrotic corps of cadets then 
under the com.mand of Col. John Hancock, and was one 



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of the two who reversed their muskets and broke from the 
ranks when the obnoxious Commissioner of Customs, 
contrary to what had been previously arranged, joined the 
procession at the annual election in 1768 — an act of sudden 
but honest indignation, but so unmilitary in its character, 
that it cost him his place in the company. For a corre- 
sponding action at a later hour in the day, when uniting 
with the people in expressing their indignation against 
the commissioners as they left the festivities at Concert 
Hall, he being conspicuous from his uniform and his con- 
duct, was attacked by one of them, Mr. Hallowell, with 
a drawn sword, and, being unarmed, narrowly escaped 
with his life. He was one of the ever memorable party 
who destroyed the tea, and also one of those who removed 
from the guard house, at the corner of West street, two 
cannon, and secreting them for a time beneath the desk of 
the master, in the schoolhouse near by (the scholars being 
privy to the fact, but concealing it with patriotic fidelity), 
conveyed them ultimately to the American lines, where 
they were gladly welcomed as the first, as they were for 
some time the only, cannon in the possession of the patriot 
army. In various ways, by patient sacrifices and earnest 
efforts, he devoted himself to the cause of liberty. Appre- 
hending the scenes of trouble that were impending, he de- 
termined to remove his aged parents to Woburn. While 
absent in the execution of this filial purpose the port was 
shut, and he was thus separated from his daughter Eliza- 
beth, who was left in town under the care of a nurse, to 
whose charge she had been entrusted from her mother's 
death, which occurred a few weeks after her birth. His 
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for him to enter the port (though liberty was granted him 
to do so), or to attempt to remove his daughter under her 
own name ; so she was taken out of town by the wife of 
the sexton of Dr. Eliot's church, as one of her own chil. 
dren, under the assumed name of " Betsey Case." A ser- 
mon preached by Dr. Lothrop, in Brattle Street Church, 
on the death of the venerable Mrs. Elizabeth Snelling, in 
September, 1859, records this adventure of her infancy. 

Moses Grant was also member of the Committee of 
Correspondence, Inspection and Safety for the town of 
Boston, 1777-2,. 

His daughter, Elizabeth Grant, married Samuel Snell- 
ing, and had Eliza Snelling, who married Benjamin 
Colman Ward, and was mother of Ellen Maria Ward and 
Julia Elizabeth Ward. 

Miss Sarah E. Ward, (2,345,) descends from 

Gabriel Stone, born 1759 at Berwick, Me., died Decem- 
ber 30, 1813, at Boothbay, Me., probably a descendant of 
Daniel Stone, of Berwick. He married, January i, 1781, 
at Berwick, Molly Boston. 

He enlisted. May 8, 1775, and marched with the Berwick 
company to Boston. He served faithfully until the close 
of the war, then returned to Boothbay and lived in the 
old homestead, managing the farm. 

His children were, (i) Shubael ; (2) Judith, married 
William Vincent ; (3) Abigail, married William Elmes ; 
(4) Mary, married Joseph Barter ; (5) Jonathan ; (6) 
William ; (7) Martha, married Eben Southard. Shubael, 
Judith, Abigail, Mary, William, and Martha left descend- 
ants. 



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His daughter, Abigail Stone, married William Elmes, 
and had Sarah Elmes, who married William Ward, and 
was mother of Sarah E. Ward. 

Miss Lilian Washburn, (1,549,) (R- 1898) descends from 

Israel Washburn, born January 30, 1755, in Raynhem, 
died there January 8, 1841. He married Abiah King. 

He fought in the early battles of the war, at Long 
Isand, White Plains, Crown Point and Lake George. He 
held the rank of captain. 

He left many descendants, who have attained high 
honors in the state. Three of his grandsons, the brothers 
Israel, Cadwallader and Elihu Washburn, sat at once in 
the National House of Representatives, and Elihu was 
afterwards United States Minister to France, and was 
distinguished for his admirable courage in the disastrous 
days of the Franco-German War, remaining at his post 
throughout, when other ministers deserted theirs. 

His son, Israel Washburn, went to Livermore, Me., 
where he built the Washburn homestead, still in posses- 
sion of the family. He married Martha Benjamin, and 
had Charles Ames Washburn, who married Sallie Cather- 
ine Cleveland, and was father of Lilian Washburn. 

t Mrs. George W. Waters, (7,498,) (died February, 1895,) 
descends from 

Samuel Nicholson, born 1743, in Maryland, died Decem- 
ber 29, 181 1, at Charlestown Navy Yard. He married 
Mary Dowse. 

He entered the naval service as lieutenant during the 
Revolutionary War, and was promoted captain September 
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appointed captain. He helped construct and lay out the 
Charlestown Navy Yard, assisted in the construction of 
the frigate Constitution while commander of the yard, and 
was her first commander, remaining in her with the rank 
of commodore till his death. He was also commander of 
the frigate Deane, 32 guns, in 1782, and captured several 
prizes. He died senior officer of the American navy, and 
was buried with military and naval honors from the com- 
mander's house at Charlestown, which was built for 
him, and where nine of his ten children were born, Janu- 
ary 2, 1812, and his remains placed in the family tomb 
under Christ Church, Boston. 

Five of his six sons entered the Navy, and died in its ser- 
vice ; one was the father of the late Admiral James Nich- 
olson, U.S.N. 

Commodore Nicholson's daughter, Anne Temple Nichol- 
son, married Purser John Rose Greene, U.S.N., and had 
David Greene, who married Anna Matilda Sumner, and 
was mother of Anna Matilda Greene, who married George 
Waters. 

Mrs. Leslie Clark Wead, (2,709,) descends from 

I. 

Joseph Ramsdell, born 1700, died August 22, 1787, at 
Hanover. He married Mercy Prior. 

He was on the Committee of Correspondence and 
Safety, 1776-7, and though advanced in years, went as 
ensign to Marshfield on the Lexington alarm in Capt. 
Robert L. Ells' company. Second regiment, Plymouth Co. 
He also went for two months to Bristol, R. I., 1776, in 
Capt. Amos Turner's company, Col. John Cushing's 
regiment. 



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His daughter, Lydia Ramsdell, married Samuel Whit- 
comb, and had Sam.uel Whitcomb, who married Mary Di- 
mond Mullett, and had William Wirt Whitcomb, who 
married Mary Hyde, and was father of Kate Haswell 
Whitcomb, who married Leslie Clark Wead. 

H. 

Jedediah Hyde, born August 27, 1738, at Norwich, Conn., 
died May 29, 1822. He married Elizabeth Brown Parker. 

At Bunker Hill he served as first-lieutenant of Captain 
Colt's company, and was wounded. He afterwards 
served as captain in the regular army. He and sixty-six 
associates were given, for their services in the war, a tract 
of land in Vermont, now known as Hyde Park, by Gover- 
nor Chittenden, of Vermont, August 27, 1781. 

His son. Major Russell B. Hyde, married Caroline 
Noyes, and was father of Mary Hyde, who married Wil- 
liam Wirt Whitcomb. 

III. 

Aaron Keeler, born 1757, at Norwalk, Conn., died Octo- 
ber 22, 1816, at Hyde Park, Vermont. He married Glori- 
anna Hubbell. 

He served as private in Captain Northrup's company. 
First Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Colonel Silliman, 
1776 ; in Captain Gregory's company, rank and file, two 
months, 1776 ; in Ninth regiment Militia, under General 
Wooster, 1777 ; enlisted as corporal in Captain Comstock's 
company, (Wilton,) August 16, 1777, to end of war. Pro- 
moted to sergeant-major, and ensign April 22, 1781, first in 
Fifth then in Third Connecticut Line. He was discharged 
with the army in June, 1783. He was an original member 
of the Society of the Cincinnati, from Connecticut. 



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His daughter, Sarah Keeler, married Breed Noyes, and 
had Caroline Noyes, who married Major Russell B. Hyde. 

Mrs. Alexander Strong Wheeler, (2,346,) descends from 

1. 

Warham Parks, born March 13, 1752, at Westfield, son 
of Elisha and Mary (Ingersoll) Parks, and great-great- 
grandson of Thomas Parks, the emigrant. He married 

Rebecca Gorham. 

He served as major in Colonel Shephard's Massachu- 
setts regiment. He offered his resignation in 1778, but 
withdrew it in consequence of an autograph letter from 
General Washington, still preserved in his family, which 
mentions his conduct as an officer in the highest terms. 

His daughter, Mary Parks, married William Hurd, and 
was mother of Augusta Hurd, who married Alexander 

Strong Wheeler. 

II. 

Nathaniel Gorham, born at Charlestown, son of Na- 
thaniel and Mary (Soley) Gorham. He married Rebecca, 
daughter of Caleb and Rebecca (Stimson) Call. 

He was a member, from Massachusetts, of the conven- 
tion that formed the Constitution of the United States, 
and at one time President of the Continental Congress. 
His daughter, Rebecca Gorham, married Warham 
Parks. 

Miss Emma Stuart White, (2,060,) > ^^^^^^^^ f^om 
Miss Harriet Rose White, (2,061,) ) 

I. 
John White, born September 12, 1756, at Marblehead ; 
died there. He married Ruth Haskell. 



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He enlisted, May, 1775, in Capt. John Merritt's com- 
pany, 2ist Massachusetts regiment (Col. John Glover's) 
and served eight month in the siege of Boston. Later, he 
served one year in Capt. Enoch Putnam's company, 
Col. Israel Hutchinson's regiment. He was at Valley 
Forge, and crossed the Delaware in the same boat with 
Washington. He won the best character as a soldier, but 
after the trials of Valley Forge was taken ill and obliged 
to get his discharge. He started to walk home but was 
too ill to proceed, and some compassionate lady took him 
into her home and cared for him till he was able to travel. 

In the war af 1812 he enlisted on the ship " Tyrannicide," 
and served till he was taken prisoner; and for a number 
of months was prisoner of war at Halifax, until peace 
was declared. 

His son, Ambrose Haskell White, was father of Emma 
Stuart and Harriet Rose White. 

II. 

Simeon Spalding, born 1713, at Chelmsford, great- 
grandson of Edward Spalding, the emigrant. He was a 
citizen of good position and reputation. In 1754 was town 
treasurer, then selectman, and commissioned cornet the 
First Troop of Horse in the Second regiment. Provincial 
Militia. He took an active part in affairs during the Revo- 
lution. From 1770 to 1776, he sat as representative from 
Chelmsford in the General Court. In September, 1775, 
he was appointed Justice of the Peace by the General 
Court, and in February, 1776, was commissioned colo- 
nel of the Seventh regiment, Provincial Militia. In 1777 
he was chosen Chairman of the Committee of Corre- 
spondence of the town. In May, 1778, he was chosen one 



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of a committee to adjust all claims for war services by his 
townsmen ; in 1779 he was chosen delegate to the conven- 
tion for framing a constitution of government for the State 
of Massachusetts Bay. In March, 1781, he was commis- 
sioned Justice of the Peace by Governor Hancock. He 
was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Forty-two of 
the name of Spalding responded to the Lexington alarm. 
He was great-great-grandfather to Emma Stuart White 
and Harriet Rose White. 

Mrs. Alexander Whiteside, (2,110,) descends from 

Stephen Shattuck, born February 10, 1710, at Water- 
town, died June, 1801, at Templeton ; son of Rev. Benja- 
min (Harvard University, 1709,) and Martha (Sherman) 
Shattuck. He married, September 5, 1734, Elizabeth 
Robbins. 

He was a farmer in Littleton, a man of great physical 
and mental powers, and a warm patriot. At the Lexing- 
ton alarm he shouldered his musket and marched to Con- 
cord to share with younger men the dangers of that event- 
ful day, and followed the retreating army to Cambridge. 

His children were, (i) Stephen (Harvard University, 
1756) ; (2) Benjamin (Harvard University, 1765) ; (3) 
Elizabeth, married Nathan Kinsman ; (4) Hannah, married 
Solomon Cook ; (5) Timothy. 

His son, Benjamin Shattuck, M.D., married Lucy 
Barron, and had George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. (Dart- 
mouth College, 1807), married Anne Eliza Cheever, and 
had George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. (Harvard University, 
183 1), who married Anne Henrietta Browne, and was 
father of Eleanor Anne Shattuck, who married Alexander 
Whiteside. 



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Miss Helen Williams, (10,519,) descends from 

John Low, born July 3, 1760, at Manchester, died Oc- 
tober 3, 1845, at Gloucester ; son of Stephen and Elizabeth 
(Woodbury) Low. He married Elizabeth Warner. 

On April 5, 1779, he sailed on the privateer "Genera 
Sparks" on her third cruise. This was the most import^ 
ant enterprise of the kind undertaken in Gloucester during 
the war. She cruised outward from the Grand Banks, 
and fell in with a brig from Limerick, with a cargo of beef, 
pork and butter, which she took and sent into Gloucester. 
This gave great joy to the inhabitants, as they were desti- 
tute of provisions. She had numerous engagements, 
taking many prizes, and greatly harrassed the enemy. 
After various battles, she arrived at Bilboa with a British 
schooner, which was sold for a large sum. On July 20 
the "Sparks" set sail for home. When a few days out 
she decoyed an English cutter, which surrendered after 
two hours' fight, and proved to be an English packe 
bound home from Jamaica. In this combat the " Sparks " 
lost but one boy ; but five were injured, among whom was 
John Low, who was shot in the head by a musket ball, 
struck between the shoulders by a splinter, and his legs so 
badly wounded by shot that one had to be amputated, and 
the other gave him much annoyance the rest of his life. 
He was forced to withdraw from his career, and estab- 
lished himself in a shop on Front street, Gloucester, 
which was for years a chief resort for the principal men 
of the town. 

His son, John James Low, married Adeline Ford, and 
had Elizabeth Adeline Low, who married Henry Willard 
Williams, and was mother of Helen Williams. 



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Mrs. Roger Wolcott, (907,) descends from 
William Prescott, born February 20, 1726, at Groton, 
died October 10, 1795, at Pepperell ; son of Benjamin and 
Abigail (Oliver) Prescott, and great-grandson of William /;;rj^***> 
Prescott, the emigrant. He married, 1776-7, Abigail Hale. 
He settled in that part of Groton which was afterwards 
Pepperell ; was in the Colonial Army, and attained the 
rank of colonel ; was at the taking of Louisburg (1746), 
and afterward in Nova Scotia with Winslow, and at the 
deportation of the Acadians. At the Lexington alarm 
every able-bodied man in Pepperell instantly volun- 
teered, and he was chosen as colonel. At Bunker Hill he 
commanded the troops sent to fortify the hill. This task 
was completed in spite of the fire of the British sloop-of 
war " Falcon," and when the weary men, who had worked 
all night, wished to disperse and leave the defence to a re- 
lief party expected from Cambridge, their colonel replied, 
" No, we have made the redoubt, and shall remain to 
defend it while life lasts." To encourage his men, faint 
with labor and want of food and water, he walked on top 
of the redoubt in full range of the enemy's cannon. In 
the battle he showed the most distinguished bravery. He 
continued in service till after Burgoyne's surrender, when 
he was obliged to retire on account of an injury received 
while working on his farm ; but his interest in public 
affairs continued. He was several times elected to the 
General Court, and was instrumental in suppressing the 
Shays' Rebellion. 

Colonel Prescott, like his ancestors, was a man of large 
and athletic frame, of great force of character, while 



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genial and generous of heart ; he was respected and be- 
loved by all. 

His son, Judge William Prescott (Harvard University, 
1783), married Catherine J. Hickling, and had William 
Hickling Prescott (Harvard University, 1814), the cele- 
brated historian, who married Susan Amory, and had 
William G. Prescott, who married Augusta Peabody, and 
was father of Edith Prescott, who married Roger Wolcott. 

Mrs. Alfred S. Woodworth, (22,128,) descends from 

Gideon De Forest, born September, 14, 1765 at Stratford, 
Connecticut, died December 9, 1840, at Edmeston, N. Y. 
He was descended from Isaac De La Forest, a Huguenot 
refugee from France to Holland, and thence to New Am- 
sterdam, now New York. He married Hannah Birdsey. 

He and his three brothers served in the Revolutionary 
War. He was part of the time under Capt. Birdsey. On 
October 15, 1832, he applied for a pension, which he re- 
ceived for two years' and two months' service in the Con- 
necticut forces. 

His daughter, Sally De Forest, married Alonzo Camp- 
bell, and had Stewart Campbell who married Catherine 
Mitchell, and was father of Sara Elizabeth Campbell who 
married Alfred S. Woodworth. 



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